Jessy Wilson is an American singer from

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and former member of the rock duo

Muddy Magnolias Muddy Magnolias was a rock band from Nashville, Tennessee, formed by Jessy Wilson and Kallie North in 2014. After their performance at the CMA Music Festival that August, ''Rolling Stone'' deemed them best unsigned duo, describing their performa ...

Early life

Wilson was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School.

Career

Muddy Magnolias

After

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Wilson began to sing backup for

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on her albums and tours. She then moved to

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in 2013 to get her music career started. This is where she met her other band member Kallie North, and was mentored by

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. Muddy Magnolias performance with large media coverage was at the CMA Music Festival 2014, when the

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compared Wilson's vocals to Aretha Franklin. The group was later signed by Third Generation Records and released their album ''Broken People'' in 2016. Kallie North later left the band in 2017 due to unspecified reasons, which led to the group disbanding.

Solo career

After the breakup of Muddy Magnolias, Wilson began making artwork very similar to art made by

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. On January 15, 2019 Wilson released her new single " Love & Sophistication," along with a lyric video with French captions. The song will be featured on her first studio album ''Phase'' which is set to be released on May 3, 2019 and was produced by Patrick Carney of

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. Wilson says "In a way, like Dylan or Picasso, I feel like I’m going through these different phases as an artist, that's what inspired the title, ''Phase''. This album fills the gap between everything I’ve been and everything I’m becoming. It's the piece that's been missing." The album will be released through Thirty Tigers Records. "Love & Sophistication" was released as the first single of her debut album ''Phase'' on February 15, 2019. Wilson describes the song as a 60's or 70's R&B track. Wilson said to V magazines that she did not just want to write the song about a love relationship, but about an evolving relationship with sophistication involved in it as well. The music video to the song debuted on V magazines website on February 15, 2019, and features Wilson in a dark room singing to the song with French Captions. The song was produced by Patrick Carney, who is the drummer of

Discography

Albums

*''Phase'' (2019,

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)

Singles

* " Love & Sophistication" (2019)

Track listing

Digital Download

# "Love & Sophistication" – 3:17

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, Jessy Living people American women singer-songwriters 21st-century African-American women singers American women rock singers American rock singers Year of birth missing (living people) Singers from New York City Musicians from Brooklyn Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School alumni 21st-century American singers 21st-century American women singers African-American songwriters Singer-songwriters from New York (state) Thirty Tigers artists