This Hitchin, Hertfordshire born acoustic singer-songwriter declared that he “[doesn’t] want to be a prisoner in a hat” in an interview with The Independent’s Craig McLean in March 2015. James Bay was discovered by Republic Records – the New York division of the Universal Music Group – after a punter in a north London pub filmed him performing Move Together and shared it on YouTube. This Brighton Institute of Modern Music graduate describes his rise to fame as “a mad story” and has over 111,000 followers on Twitter.
