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Jay Sean

July 2013

  • Jay Sean: Neon – review

    Jay Sean's fourth album has had a difficult conception, but the end product is disappointingly bland, writes Killian Fox

September 2010

  • Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Roger Waters

    Behind the music
    Behind the music: Awal keeps digital royalties from going awol

    Helienne Lindvall: Artists Without a Label, started by two musicians formerly signed to Polydor, are tackling the murky issue of digital royalty payments – and revealing some startling disparities

July 2010

  • Taio Cruz and UK urban music

    First Dizzee Rascal, now the British urban scene is getting crowded

    Homegrown acts led by Tinchy Stryder and Taio Cruz are making sure British talent is recognised in the US

April 2010

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    How Jay Sean and Taio Cruz took America by storm

    Jay Sean and Taio Cruz have achieved something very few British acts have managed – selling R&B and urban pop back to the US. They tell Lola Adesioye how they did it

November 2009

  • Jay Sean: All or Nothing

    The rest is glossy, super-catchy R&B that should finally establish him in the UK, says Caroline Sullivan

October 2009

  • The XX

    Music: This week's releases

    The XX | Biffy Clyro | Jay Sean | Kano | Kasabian

  • Singles club
    Songs about rebels, roads and ringtones

    Tinchy, Pixie and VV redefine the term 'soul rebel', Cheryl Cole takes some driving metaphors for a spin, and Jay Sean proves that his music is best heard on a mobile phone

  • Pop star Jay Sean

    Jay Sean knocks Black Eyed Peas from US top spot

    The first British urban male artist to have a No 1 single in the States ends Black Eyed Peas' 26-week run at the chart summit

April 2008

  • Jay Sean, My Own Way

  • This week's new tracks
    Eva Wiseman's new releases review

January 2008

  • This week's new tracks
    John Robinson's new releases review

  • Stephen Bates

    People

    Stephen Bates

April 2005

  • 'Who are the Stones?'

    In India, Hounslow rapper Jay Sean outsells Britney, Destiny's Child - even Madonna. Dave Simpson joins him on tour in Mumbai.

November 2004

  • Gonzales, So-lo Piano

  • Jay Sean, Me Against Myself

October 2004

  • Introducing ... Jay Sean, singer

    'I'm not afraid to take the piss out of myself,' laughs Jay Sean. In fact the title track on his debut album Me Against Myself (out 8 November) features Sean's rap persona dissing his own singing ('Who are you, the Asian Craig David?') while he sings a defence.

August 2004

  • Talk time: Jay Sean

    Jay Sean is the rising star of Asian urban music. His recent single Eyes on You was a Top 10 hit and he has compiled a playlist for O2's Digital Music Player service.

June 2004

  • Jay Sean

    ULU, London

February 2000

  • This time it's for real

    It was the hottest ticket in town and the audience had dressed for it. Front row at Sean "Puffy" Combes's first menswear show in New York, sat fellow rappers Missy Elliott, Lil Kim and Jay Z, all straining to see what the megastar had put together for the catwalk. The answer? Fur. Lots of it. Wasn't Puffy worried that the star sensibilities in the audience last weekend might bridle at his parade of skins? Unlikely: a good few rabbits had gone into Missy Elliot's soft fur coat and Lil Kim was trailing fur sleeves and matching fur-trimmed culottes all over the seat.

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