Biografía de Jake Bugg

Jake Bugg (born Jacob Edwin Kennedy; 1994) is an English singer songwriter. His work is influenced by Donovan, Johnny Cash, The Everly Brothers, Alice In Chains, Jimi Hendrix, Oasis and The Beatles. In an interview for the telegraph, when dubbed 'an East Midlands Bob Dylan', Bugg said 'Bob Dylan's cool, you know, he's great, but he's not a major influence.'

Bugg was born in Nottingham, grew up in the Clifton area and started playing guitar aged 12. He was chosen by the BBC to appear on their "Introducing" stage at the 2011 Glastonbury Festival aged 17, and because of this was given a contract by Mercury Records. His songs were then placed on various BBC Radio play lists and one of them, "Country Song", was selected for use in a national TV beer commercial for Greene King IPA.

On 22 May 2012, Bugg appeared on the BBC music programme Later... with Jools Holland. In August 2012 Bugg was a supporting act for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at Belsonic Music Festival, Belfast. On 1 October 2012, he performed live on the BBC Radio 6 Music programme Live at Maida Vale. Bugg's debut album was released on 15 October 2012. Talking about Bugg and his debut Clash hailed the "precocious talent fusing retro folk with blistering contemporary rock riffs". On 21 October 2012 the song "Two Fingers" charted at 33 in the UK while his self-titled album reached number one in the UK charts. In December of 2012 Bugg created the currently active instagram username @jakebuggofficial. On 1 January 2013 Bugg appeared on Jools' Annual Hootenanny on BBC2, and on 5 January 2013 he appeared on The Jonathan Ross Show on ITV1.

Fuente: Austin G. a través de Musica.com