| Jin Jin | |
| Birth Name: | Janée Bennett |
| Birth Place: | Manchester, England |
| Instrument: | Vocals |
| Years Active: | 2003–present |
Janée Bennett, known professionally as Jin Jin, is an English musician, singer and songwriter from Manchester.
She is known for predominantly writing songs with Jess Glynne, Raye and Jax Jones.
As a child Bennett became interested in music whilst hanging out in her grandfather’s reggae music record shop and enrolled at City College Manchester to do a National Diploma in Music Technology and a Higher National Diploma.
She also studied performance at Stockport's North Cheshire Theatre School, also home to many infamous talents such as acclaimed actress and screenwriter Sally Lindsay, the late Girls Aloud star Sarah Harding, Sweet Female Attitude's Catherine 'Cat' Cassidy and artist JJ Rosa .
Bennett signed to the music publisher Windswept Music UK[1] and completed an undergraduate degree in Music Industry Management and Marketing at Buckinghamshire University. To see herself through college she modelled for fashion brands including Agent Provocateur and DKNY.
In September 2008, having moved to London, Bennett co-wrote the Roll Deep single "Do Me Wrong", from their album Return of the Big Money Sound. In October 2009, Bennett released her debut single, "Sex in the City", via Moshi Moshi Records; NME magazine described the track as "rude, fresh and kinda brilliant".[2] A version of the single features rapper Tinchy Stryder.[3] Bennett was profiled in The Guardians "New band of the week" feature the same month, with Paul Lester describing her as "a rougher, cruder version of glossy American R&B" and "a new urban female who is... like a Moss Side Pink if she'd worked with Tinchy instead of Linda Perry".[4]
In October 2013, Bennett issued "Fire Me Up" under her shortened stage name Jin Jin.[5] [6] [7] She collaborated with the band Polar Bear on the song "Cuckoo", released as a single in October 2014.[8]
Bennett is a successful songwriter for others, signed through the UK office to Universal Music Publishing Group worldwide. Bennett discovered the seven times #1 singer Jess Glynne whilst teaching a masterclass at Jess's music college, and went on to collaborate with Glynne on tracks for her debut album. This included Jess Glynne's first official single "Right Here", which was a UK top ten hit in 2014. Bennett co-wrote Glynne's second collaboration with Clean Bandit, "Real Love", as well as "Not Letting Go" featuring Tinie Tempah which topped the UK charts. She also co-wrote Jess Glynne's "Hold My Hand" which was a UK #1 as well as being Jess's first entry on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was also used in an advertisement for Coca-Cola in 2015 and was featured on the original movie soundtrack for the 2016 film, Bridget Jones's Baby. She also co-wrote 10 tracks on Jess’s second album Always In Between. Both of Jess’s albums have topped the charts, and Jin Jin was nominated for an Ivor Novello and won a BMI Award for her writing on ‘Hold My Hand’. Jess’s debut album I Cry When I Laugh is now 4 x Platinum in the UK alone.
In 2018 her co-write with Raye & Jax Jones "You Don't Know Me" was nominated for a BRIT Award,[9] and has now racked up upwards of 400 million streams. She recently picked up a BMI award for "Home With You" by Madison Beer.[10] Other notable recent successes include "Lullaby" by Sigala and Paloma Faith, which was in the top 10 biggest songs of 2018 and went Platinum in the UK, and "Alien" by Jonas Blue and Sabrina Carpenter which reached #1 on the Billboard Dance Chart.[11]
Jin Jin has collaborated with a host of international producers and artists such as Stephen Di Genius, Fraser T. Smith, Toby Gad, Diplo, and David Guetta, and artists Jess Glynne, Jax Jones, Raye, Paloma Faith & Sigala. Further collaborations include Jonas Blue & Sabrina Carpenter, Madison Beer, Yebba, Sean Paul, Rita Ora, Clean Bandit, Nina Nesbitt, Craig David, Gary Barlow and most recently break-through artists Hailee Steinfeld and Becky G[12] Jin Jin co-wrote the 2021 UEFA Champions League x Pepsi anthem ‘Rotate’ by Burna Boy and Becky G, and Jax Jones 'Phases' which featured on the Pokémon 25th Anniversary Soundtrack in 2021.
In 2015 Bennett set up her own publishing company, Raggamuffin Music, in conjunction with Bucks Music Group. A few years later she set up Jinsing, a label and management company with a publishing arm that is a joint venture with Universal Music Publishing. She recently won the Music Creative Award at the UK's Women In Music event. The award was presented to her by long time friend and collaborator Jess Glynne.[13] Jin Jin is now also a Senior A&R manager at Parlophone Records and joined the board of Directors of The Ivors Academy in 2020.
Jin Jin is the daughter of former Sunderland footballer Gary Bennett.[14]
| Title | Year | Artist(s) | Album | Written with: |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Right Here" | 2014 | Jess Glynne | I Cry When I Laugh | Jessica Glynne, Kye Gibbon, Matthew Robson-Scott |
| "Real Love" | Clean Bandit | New Eyes / I Cry When I Laugh | Jack Patterson, Grace Chatto, Jessica Glynne, Richard Boardman, Robert Harvey, Cleo Tighe, Sarah Blanchard | |
| "Drunk and Incapable" | Krishane | Dominic Macallister, Gareth Keane, Krishane Murray, Ryan Griffiths, Theodoulos Doukanaris | ||
| "Hold My Hand" | 2015 | Jess Glynne | I Cry When I Laugh | Jessica Glynne, Jack Patterson, Ina Wroldsen |
| "Not Letting Go" | Tinie Tempah | Youth / I Cry When I Laugh | Patrick Okogwu, Krishane Murray, Jessica Glynne, Gareth Keane, Lewis Jankel, Jermaine Jackson | |
| "Gave Me Something" | Jess Glynne | I Cry When I Laugh | Jessica Glynne, Andrew Knox Brown, Finlay Dow-Smith | |
| "Ain't Got Far to Go" | Jessica Glynne, Andrew Knox Brown, Finlay Dow-Smith | |||
| "Love Me" | Jessica Glynne, Andrew Knox Brown | |||
| "No Rights No Wrongs" | Jessica Glynne, Andrew Knox Brown, Finlay Dow-Smith, Jonathan Coffer, James Newman | |||
| "Home" | Jessica Glynne, Gareth Keane | |||
| "Bad Blood" | Jessica Glynne, Gareth Keane, Peter Connolly, Santosh Anand, Anu Malik | |||
| "Grown" | Little Mix | Get Weird | Perrie Edwards, Jessica Nelson, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Jade Thirlwall, Camille Purcell, Edvard Forre Erfjord, Henrik Barman Michelsen, Jessica Glynne | |
| "Like That" | Fleur East | Love, Sax and Flashbacks | Fleur East, Fraser Thornycroft-Smith, Ina Wroldsen, Ash Soan, Benjamin Epstein | |
| "Scar" | 2016 | Foxes | All I Need | Louisa Rose Allen, Kenneth Edmonds, Antonio Dixon, Khristopher Riddick-Tynes, Jonathan Saxe |
| "Need Somebody" | Alex Newell | Brandyn Burnette, Daniel Heloy Davidsen, Peter Wallevik, Mich Hansen | ||
| "Mamacita" | Tinie Tempah | Youth | Patrick Okogwu, Marlysse Simmons, St. Aubyn Levy, Reinaldo Alvarez, Ayodeji Balogun | |
| "Keep It Moving" | Alex Newell | Brandyn Burnette, Daniel Heloy Davidsen, Peter Wallevik, Mich Hansen | ||
| "24 HRS" | Olly Murs | 24 Hrs | Oliver Murs, Steve Robson, Clarence Coffee Jr. | |
| "How Much for Your Love" | Oliver Murs, Steve Robson, Clarence Coffee Jr. | |||
| "You Don't Know Me" | Jax Jones | Snacks EP | Timucin Aluo, Uzoechi Emenike, Rachel Keen, Walter Merzinger, Arno Kammermeier, Peter Hayo, Patrick Bodmer, Philip D. Young | |
| "Don't Want You Back" | 2017 | Bakermat | Lodewijk Fluttert, Clifford Goilo, Komi Al-Hakam, Tamera Foster | |
| "We Could Go Back" | Jonas Blue | Blue | Guy James Robin, Edvard Forre Erfjord, Henrik Barman Michelsen | |
| "Evergreen" | YEBBA | Abbey Smith, George Moore | ||
| "Decline" | Raye | Side Tape | Rachel Keen, Fraser Thornycroft-Smith, Oluwatosin Adjibade, Marcus Vest, Jeffrey Atkins, Irving Lorenzo | |
| "My Body" | Paloma Faith | The Architect | Paloma Faith, Andrew Knox Brown, Finlay Dow-Smith | |
| "Love Divine" | Sub Focus | Nicholas Douwma, Philip Thomas, Nadia Adu-Gyamfi, Uzoechi Emenike, John Gillivray, Christopher Lane | ||
| "Proud" | 2018 | Rita Ora | Rita Ora, Fridolin Walcher | |
| "Home with You" | Madison Beer | As She Pleases EP | Madison Beer, Leroy Clampitt, Rachel Keen, Frederik Gibson | |
| "Lullaby" | Sigala | Brighter Days | Bruce Fielder, Jessica Glynne, Andrew Bullimore, Joshua Record, Paloma Faith | |
| "Alien" | Sabrina Carpenter | Sabrina Carpenter, Guy James Robin | ||
| "Check" | Kojo Funds | Golden Boy | Errol Bellot, Rachel Keen, Gabriel Kusimo | |
| "Wife Me" | Raye | Side Tape | Rachel Keen, Pahuldip Sandhu, Joseph Ellis | |
| "Feels Like Home" | Sigala | Brighter Days | Bruce Fielder, Sean Henriques, Nana Abiona, Daryl Kent Jones | |
| "You Don't Know Me" | Bruce Fielder, Shaun Frank, Mich Hansen, Daniel Heløy Davidsen, Peter Wallevik, Tramar Dillard | |||
| "Friends" | Raye | Rachel Keen, Frederik Gibson, Mark Ralph, Kyle Shearer, Nathaniel Campany | ||
| "Blind" | Four of Diamonds | Fridolin Walcher, Gareth Keane, Mabel McVey, Steven Hurley | ||
| "All I Am" | Jess Glynne | Always In Between | Jessica Glynne, Bastian Langebaek, James Newman, Sophie Cooke, Sandy Rivera, Jay Sealee | |
| "No One" | Jessica Glynne, Tobias Gad | |||
| "123" | Jessica Glynne, Jordan Thomas, James Newman, Jonathan Mensah | |||
| "Hate/Love" | Jessica Glynne, Bastian Langebaek | |||
| "Won't Say No" | Jessica Glynne, Finlay Dow-Smith, Clarence Coffee Jr. | |||
| "Rollin'" | Jessica Glynne, Frederik Gibson | |||
| "Nevermind" | Jessica Glynne, Cass Lowe | |||
| "Insecurities" | Jessica Glynne, Tobias Gad | |||
| "Never Let Me Go" | John Ryan, Julian Bunetta, Jamie Scott, Jessica Glynne | |||
| "So Real (Warriors)" | Too Many Zooz | Leo Pellegrino, Matthew Muirhead, David Parks, Kris Di Angelis, Jordan Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Marcus Lomax, Alexander Izquerdio, Jessica Glynne, Ivan Rosenburg | ||
| "Thank You" | Lena | Only Love, L | BeatGees, Fraser Thornycroft-Smith, Jessica Glynne, Lena Meyer-Landrut, Simon Triebel | |
| "Old Friend" | Elderbrook | Old Friend EP | Alexander Kotz, Fridolin Walcher | |
| "Baby" | Yogi, Maleek Berry, RAY BLK | Alexander Lewis, Brian Collins Jr, David Phelps, Ivan Rosenberg, Joseph Cabera, Ken Gold, Maleek Shoyebi, Mark Ralph, Matthew Walker, Michale Denne, Rita Ekwere, Yogi Tulsiani | ||
| "Love Letter" | 2019 | Nina Nesbitt | The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change | Nina Nesbitt, Fraser Thornycroft-Smith |
| "Put Your Phone Down (Low)" | Jack Back | David Guetta, Raye, Camille Purcell, Timofey Reznikov | ||
| "Wasted Nights" | ONE OK ROCK | Eye Of The Storm | Takahiro Moriuchi, Peter Nappi, Jamil Kazmi | |
| "Giants" | Takahiro Moriuchi, Mark Crew, Jamil Kazmi | |||
| "All The Lies" | Alok, Felix Jaehn & The Vamps (British band) | Alok Achkar Peres Petrillo, Anders Froen, Felix Jaehn, Bradley Will Simpson, Ohyes, Vincent Kottamp | ||
| "Brave" | Don Diablo & Jessie J | Frances (musician), James Richard Newman, Don P Schipper, Martijn H J Sonderen, Edvard Foerre Erfjord, Jess Glynne, Henrick Barman Michelsen | ||
| "How Do You" | Elderbrook | Thomas Wesley Pentz, Alexander Harry Kotz, Grace Martine Tandon, Maximilian Jaeger, Robert Clifton III Brackins | ||
| "When You Know What Love Is" | Craig David | Craig David, Gary Barlow, Fraser T Smith | ||
| "One Touch" | Jess Glynne & Jax Jones | Snacks EP | Jax Jones, MNEK, Jess Glynne, Mark Stuart Ralph | |
| "Exit Sign" | Kah-Lo | Faridah Seriki, Ashley Peter Milton, Daniel James Denis Goudie | ||
| "Bonita" | Donea'O feat. Stylo G | Jonas Blue, Jason Andre Mcdermott, Ian Michael Greenidge | ||
| "Do You Miss Me Much" | Craig David | Gary Barlow, Craig David, Fraser Lance Thorneycroft | ||
| "Love Me Again" | Raye | Raye | ||
| "Love Me Again (Remix) " | Raye, Jess Glynne | Jess Glynne, Raye | ||
| "We Got Love" | Sigala | Joakim Sebastian Hasselquist Jarl, Ella Henderson, Derrick May, Michael James, Anne-Marie Nicholson, Bruce Fielder, Thomas Michael Jules | ||
| "TING TING TING" | 2020 | Itzy | It'z Me | Oliver Heldens, Oak Felder |
| "My Man" | Becky G | Akil C. King, Andrea Elena Mangimarchi, Edgar Barrera, Jenni Rivera, Maurice "Verse" Simmonds, Rebbeca Marie Gomez, Stephen McGregor | ||
| "Tequila" | Jax Jones, Martin Solveig, Raye | Europa | Mark Stuart Ralph, Rachel Keen, Timucian Kwong Wah Lam, Uzoechi Osisioma Emenike, Martin Solveig | |
| "Feel Right Now" | Parx | Harold Faltermeyer, Rachel Keen, Alexander Frederick Cramp | ||
| "Your Name Hurts" | Hailee Steinfeld | Half Written Story | Stephen Noel Kozmeniuk, Hailee Steinfeld, Caroline Ades Pennell, Elizabeth Boland | |
| "Day One" | Double S, Sticky | Bashir Bazanye, Nadine Dorothy Samuels, Reiss Hanson, Richard Forbes, Theodoulos Pavlos Doukanaris | ||
| "Felt Cute" | Le Cheval | Amber Van Day, Camden Cox, Devin The Great, Molly Ashcroft, Niamh Murphy, Pringle Dan, Sami Chokri | ||
| "Zanotti" | NSG | Roots | Abdul Arowosaye, Ayodeji Mujib Shekoni, Dennis Mensah, Jonathan Mensah, Matthew Ojo, Patrick Brew, William Mensah | |
| "Lie For You" | Snakehips & Jess Glynne | Artist Dubose, David Adeleke, Edvard Førre Erfjord, Henrik Barman Michelsen, James David, Jess Glynne, Oliver Dickinson | ||
| "Chapter 1" | Octavian | Rari (Chapter 1) | Jim-E Stack, Octavian | |
| "More Life" | Torren Foot | Michael McEwan, Nick Hahn, Patrick Okogwu, Torren Foot | ||
| "NICOTINE" | Grey | Kyle Trewartha, Michael Trewartha | ||
| "Back To My Bed" | Elderbrook | Why Do We Shake In The Cold? | Alexander Kotz, Christopher Tempest, Corey James, Edvard Erfjord, Henrik Michelsen, Sanders Tempest | |
| "Wired" | Sonny Fodera | Ben Kohn, Ella Eyre, Pete Kelleher, Sonny Fodera, Tom Barnes | ||
| "i miss u" | Jax Jones | Cass Lowe, Ina Wroldsen, Olav Tronsmoen, Timucin Lam | ||
| "Pa Ti" | Jennifer Lopez, Maluma | Pa Ti + Lonely | Andrea Elena Mangimarchi, Edgar Barrera, Jennifer Lopez, Jon Leone, Juan Luis Londoño Arias, Nathaniel Campany | |
| "Naughty List" | Liam Payne | Ben Kohn, Ed Drewett, Ella Henderson, Pete Kelleher, Tom Barnes | ||
| "A Mess (Happy 4 U)" | Little Mix | Confetti (Little Mix album) | Cass Lowe, Jade Thirlwall, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Perrie Edwards | |
| "All Dressed Up" | Raye | Euphoric Sad Songs | Benjamin Alexander Kohn, Pete Kelleher, Tom Barnes, Rachel Keen | |
| "Rotate" | 2021 | Becky G, Burna Boy | Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, Elena Rose, Nate Campany, Pierre-Antoine Melki, Raphaël Judrin, Rebbeca Marie Gomez, Stephen McGregor | |
| "BED" | Joel Corry, Raye, David Guetta | David Guetta, Giorgio Tuinfort, Joel Corry, Lewis Thompson, Neave Applebaum, Rachel Keen | ||
| "Renegades" | ONE OK ROCK | Luxury Disease | Takahiro Moriuchi, Ed Sheeran, Masato Hayakawa, David Pramik | |
| "Love Line" | Shift K3Y | Fridolin Walcher, Lewis Jankel, Rachael Keen, Tinashe Kachingwe | ||
| "One By One" | Diplo | Alexander Kotz, Simon Haehnel, Thomas Wesley Pentz, Tobias Müller | ||
| "No Sleep" | Jodie Harsh | Jay Clarke, Samuel George Lewis | ||
| "Feel So Good" | JKAY | Dom McAllister, Jon Keep, Local, Marvin Humes, Richard Sheppard | ||
| "Candy" | Kah-Lo | The Arrival EP | Daniel Gleyzer, Faridah Demola-Seriki | |
| "OUT OUT" | Joel Corry, Jax Jones | Amber Van Day, Charli XCX, Jax Jones, Joel Corry, Kamille Purcell, Lewis Thompson, Låpsley, Neave Applebaum, Nonô, RØRY, Saweetie, Stromae | ||
| "Style & Fashion" | Pa Salieu | Afrikan Rebel | Felix Joseph, Obongjayar, Pa Salieu, Pheelz, Silky | |
| "You" | Sonny Fodera | Wide Awake | Sam Tompkins, Sonny Fodera, Theodoulos Pavlos Doukanaris | |
| "Wonder" | ONE OK ROCK | Luxury Disease | Takahiro Moriuchi, Masato Hayakawa, David Pramik | |
| "Work It" | Billon | Camden Aimee Kraye Cox, Edward Conor James Butler, George Hammond-Hagan, John Hammond-Hagan, Michelle Escoffery, Theodoulos Pavlos Doukanaris | ||
| "Between Us" | Little Mix | Jade Thirlwall, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Perrie Edwards, Tre Jean-Marie, Uzoechi Emenike | ||
| "somebody" | Grace Davies | i wonder if you wonder EP | Sophie Frances Cooke, Grace Davies | |
| "Phases" | Jax Jones, Sinéad Harnett | Cleo Tighe, Cass Lowe, Timucin Lam | ||
| "Vroom" | 2022 | Davido, Idris Elba, Koffee, Moelogo, The FaNaTiX | Adrian Francis, Curtis James, David Adeleke, Idris Elba, Mikayla Simpson, Mohammed Basit Abiola Isola Animashaun, Tione Jayden Merritt | |
| "How We Do It" | Sean Paul | Clarence Bernard Coffee, Nyann "News" Lodge, Rachel Keen, Sean Paul, Yannick Rastogi, Zacharie Raymond | ||
| "Different Kinds of People" | Bimini | Benjy, Bimini, Harvey Kikrby, Rhys Kirkby-Cox | ||
| "Serotonin Moonbeams" | The Blessed Madonna | Adam Kaye, Barbara Burton, Charles Burton, Marea Stamper, Sam Knowles, Suzanne Vega, Uffie | ||
| "It's All Love" | Craig David & Toddla T | Adrian McLeod, Craig David, Toddla T | ||
| "Extremes" | Alan Walker, Trevor Daniel | Alan Walker, Carla Cappa, Johnny Goldstein, Kasper, Trevor Daniel Neill | ||
| "Bad Like We" | Wiley, Nicki Minaj, Popcaan, Dyo | Rymez, Richard Kylea Cowie Jr., Andrae Hugh Sutherland, Onika Maraj, Dayo Olatunji | ||
| "Living Without You" | Sigala, David Guetta, Sam Ryder | There's Nothing but Space, Man! | Joakim Jarl, Bruce Fielder, David Guetta, Eddie Serifica, James Terence Murray, Mustafa Omer, Tom Grennan | |
| "Special Delivery" | 2023 | Meghan Trainor | Takin' It Back Deluxe | Federico Vindver, Maxwell Schneider, Meghan Trainor |
| "Put Your Hands Up" | Marvin Humes | Bryan Cox, Caroline Alvares, Iain James, Jermaine Dupri, Usher Raymond | ||
| "Freetown" | Kara Marni, Big Zuu | Jacob Manson, Kara Marni, Zuhair Hassan | ||
| "Oops" | Oliver Heldens, Karen Harding | Karen Harding, Max Martin, Alexandra Kollontai Mills, Alison Moyet, Dom Liu, Lenno Linjama, Nicole Blair, Oliver Heldens, Paul John Harris, Rami Yacoub, Sean Mac, Vince Clarke | ||
| "learnt to love goodbyes" | Cat Burns | emotionally unavailable | Cat Burns, George Moore | |
| "we, diamonds" | Dawn Richard | new breed | Dawn Richard, PRGRSHN | |
| "Hectic" | Jodie Harsh | Neave Applebaum, Pablo Bowman, Alexander Cramp, David Marvin Blake, Eve Jeffers, Jay Clarke, Miggy De La Rosa, Nathaniel D Hale | ||
| "Flip Phone" | Brooke Candy | BOBBIE, Brooke Candy, Lucia Fairfull, Jesse Saint John | ||
| "Bow Down" | Ivorian Doll | Lei Jennings, Vanessa Mahi | ||
| "Big Bad IVD" | Christopher Layton, Ellis Taylor, Jacqueline Pelham-Leigh, Lei Jenning, Vanessa Mahi | |||
| "Car Keys (Ayla)" | Alok, Ava Max | Amana Ava Koci, Fridolin Walcher, Henry Walter, Ingo Kunzi, Madison Love, Oliver Heldens, Rachel Keen | ||
| "Stars" | PNAU, Bebe Rexha, Ozuna | Bebe Rexha, Jan Carlos Ozuna Rosado, Nicholas Littlemore, Peter Mayes, Sam Littlemore, Yazid Rivera | ||
| "Must Have Been Love" | Albert Harvey | Albert Harvey, Per Gessle | ||
| "Feed Your Soul" | Josh Dorey | Clementine Douglas | ||
| "I Love You" | 2024 | Billen Ted, TeeDee | Dylan Mills, Lauren Keen, Sam Brennan, Sissy Ford, TeeDee, Tom Hollings | |
| "Enough" | Jess Glynne | Jess | Dyo, Greg Kurstin, Jess Glynne, Knox Brown, P2J | |
| "Edge of Saturday Night" | The Blessed Madonna, Kylie Minogue | Godspeed | The Blessed Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Raye |