jasmine.4.t.

The light still breaks through each morning. That’s the driving sentiment on You Are The Morning, the debut album from trans woman and Manchester-based singer-songwriter jasmine.4.t. Its title is dedicated to queer friendship, which she says saved her life. The first UK signee on Saddest Factory Records, the album was produced by Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus. Jasmine and her band travelled to L.A. to record at Sound City Studios. It was made across 12 days in a highly collaborative and emotional process, and because Jasmine sees her songs as fluid and ever-changing, the recordings carry that free and spontaneous spirit. Jasmine considers her album as a call to action for a brighter future for trans people.

This funding from PRS Foundation will help jasmine.4.t to reach another international market at an early stage. It helps her grow her platform into a truly global artist and build important fan bases outside the UK. Following on from her success at SXSW in Austin earlier this year, where she played for several key US media including NPR and Rolling Stone and won the Grulke Prize for Best Developing Non-US Act, she plays SXSW Sydney in the hopes of igniting the same impact. She will travel to Sydney off the back of her first US headline tour, and will play headline shows in Melbourne and Brisbane, setting her up to return to APAC on future campaigns.