‘People Might Think I’m a Closed Book’: On Her Debut Album, Jazzy Is Opening Up
Categoria: Musica
Upon the release of Peace & Patience, the Irish dance-pop hitmaker talks about the project and the time she knocked Calvin Harris off a No. 1 chart position.
Por Billboard | 23/10/2026
Jazzy had made a lot of music for her debut album — and when it came time to decide which songs would make it onto the project, she selected tracks around two related themes. These concepts were so crucial to the music and the experiences that informed it that she ultimately made them the name of the album. This 13-song set, Peace & Patience , is out today (Oct. 23) via Chaos Records. A tight 36 minutes of sumptuous house-leaning dance pop, the album is centered around Jazzy’s gorgeously textured voice and cements her as a crucial next-gen dance pop hitmaker. Related Head Trip 2026 Was (Accidentally) the Craziest One-Night Lineup in EDM History: Seven Takeaways From the Historic Festival Tate McRae Debuts at No. 1 In Australia With 'Housewife' LISA, Miley, Kacey Musgraves & John Mayer: New Music Friday Guide She’s developed this reputation in her native Ireland and nearby U.K. over the last half-decade with a series of chart hits, including 2023’s “Giving Me” — her first solo single, which reached No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart and hit No. 1 on the Official Irish Singles Chart, knocking “Miracle” by Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding into the No. 2 position. Harris noticed, which led to him and Jazzy pairing up for May’s “Satisfy,” which itself hit No. 1 on Billboard ‘s Dance Airplay chart this past June. All in, the Dublin-born DJ/producer has made these successes look pretty easy — and in fact, she makes her journey from Dublin child violinist to chart-topping dance star sound pretty breezy too. Meeting with Billboard in a sunny office in the Capitol Records building in Los Angeles on a recent Friday morning, Jazzy — dressed in athleisure — is cheerful and warm. Tonight (Oct. 23), she’ll play a set at the nearby nightclub Sound, the second to last date on an American club tour around Peace & Patience . The album’s release party will find her back in her native Dublin, where she plans celebrate at the pub with a handful of friends before joining many thousand more the next evening for a show at the city’s 3Arena that will mark her biggest headlining performance to date. Here, Jazzy talks about her origins, her album and being in the studio with Harris. You’ve said you had a lot of music to choose from for the album, some of it a few years old. Were you selecting songs around a theme in terms of what ultimately made it on? Yeah, I wanted them to be cohesive, and I wanted to pick ones that meant the most to me — ones with stories I wanted to tell. I feel like people might think I’m a closed book sometimes, a woman of not a lot of words. So I just wanted to open up a little about experiences I’ve had in life and stuff I go through now. Tell me about how the title track relates to that desire to open up. “Peace and Patience” is a big one for me. The lyrics are quite uplifting — they give people a push. With everything going on in the world right now