Charismatic South African singer-songwriter Jeremy Loops will make any room dance and groove. Positive energy radiates from his lyrics about life, love, following dreams and living a happy and fulfilled life in a difficult world. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s the blend of genres that catches the ear – modern folk with an urban edge, spanning gentle, rousing ballads to anthemic arena-ready bangers. And the show is what wins over audiences on the fence. Atypical of the navel-gazing slow-paced singer-songwriter shows common to the genre, Jeremy\u2019s show is high-energy, high engagement from start to finish.<\/p>\n
From cult live act status in his hometown Cape Town, to a chart-topping album domestically, Jeremy Loops career\u2019s been characterised by breaking through glass ceilings. His international breakout saw him open for Twenty One Pilots on the road, headline a sold out 30,000-ticket tour of his own, and soon followed by a sold out headline show at London\u2019s iconic O2 Academy Brixton.<\/p>\n
His sleeper hit debut album Trading Change produced the mega single Down South and launched a household name in South Africa, but it was his second album, Critical As Water, that put the rest of the world on notice. The list of collaborators, including Will Hicks (Ed Sheeran\u2019s Perfect) and Jake Gosling (The Libertines, Shawn Mendez), signalled he\u2019d earned the respect of his peers and contemporaries. And the singles Waves and Gold, which received heavy airplay across Europe, cracking Germany\u2019s Top 200 Airplay charts and the latter being playlisted on BBC2 and repeat, showed that his recordings had the big ticket commercial prospects to back up the fast-growing audiences at his live shows.<\/p>\n
He looks to stick to the same fundamental. \u2018Write great songs, and put on great shows\u2019, he says. \u2018If we do that right, everything follows.\u2019
\nAs the singer-songwriter prepares for the next phase of his career, signing a worldwide licensing deal with Universal music, working on his as yet untitled third album with a growing list of A-list co-writers and producers.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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