Yasmin Perry (born 10 March 1993), who performs under the
mononym
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Yasmin, is an English singer, songwriter and DJ. She is signed to record label Levels Entertainment,
an imprint of
Ministry of Sound
Ministry of Sound or Ministry of Sound Group is a multimedia entertainment business based in London with a nightclub, shared workspace and private members' club, worldwide events operation, music publishing business and fitness studio.
James ...
and began her singing career in October 2010 when she appeared on rapper
Devlin Devlin may refer to:
* Devlin (surname)
* Devlin (given name)
* Devlin (rapper), a British rapper
* ''Devlin'' (TV series), a 1974 animated TV series by Hanna-Barbera
* ''Devlin'', a 1988 novel by Roderick Thorp
* ''The Devil and Max Devlin
'' ...
's single "
Runaway".
[ Her debut single, " On My Own", was released on 30 January 2011.
]
Career
Early history
Yasmin was born on 10 March 1993 in Ashington
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, England to an Iranian
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* Iran, a sovereign state
* Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran
* Iranian lan ...
father and English mother. She was raised in Northumberland and also lived in Manchester and Kilmacolm
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, near Glasgow
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in Scotland.
Yasmin began her musical career when she was seventeen years old. She left university, moving to London
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, where she focused on DJing. During her time in London, Yasmin was spotted and asked to DJ for many artists, including N*E*R*D
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, POB and Taio Cruz
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. Yasmin was then featured on Devlin's second official single, "
", for which Yasmin wrote and provided vocals for the chorus. The single was released in the United Kingdom on 24 October 2010, where it debuted at number 15 on the