Back from LA, Jesse Clegg drops his single on the Breakfast show
"My fans got me through the difficult moments of my life."
Jesse Clegg is a platinum-selling South-African singer-songwriter. Throughout his career, Jesse has released ten Top 10 radio singles and has been nominated for five South African Music Awards.
He has toured both nationally and internationally, including the Isle of Wight Festival in the UK, SXSW in Austin, Texas, and Radio City Music Hall in New York for the annual Mandela Day Concert.
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He has toured and collaborated with multiple international acts, including Daughtry, Walk The Moon, Msaki, Shekhinah, DJ Kent, and most recently, as the main support for Imagine Dragon's stadium tour across South Africa.
Jesse has released three studio albums and is working on his new album in Los Angeles with Grammy-winning producer Tim Pagnotta.
'Called To Hear Your Voice' is his latest single, so the Breakfast team decided to call him up:
'Called To Hear Your Voice' was written by Jesse Clegg and recorded in LA with frequent collaborators Nicholas Petricca and Pagnotta, who produced and mixed the track.
Jesse spoke about his single and what it meant to him coming back to South Africa from LA.
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"I had been in LA for several weeks working on my new album, and I was feeling exhausted and homesick. The song is about being far from home and that experience of phoning that special person in your life that brings you comfort," says Jesse.
Jesse would call home often to feel that connection and realised that it wasn’t what was actually said on the call that mattered, but just the sound of their voice that brought him back to himself and made him feel strong again.
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