Jorja Smith
May / June, 2018
JORJA SMITHLET’S PLAYOn January 19, 2016, Jorja Smith made a decision that would alter her life forever. After years of posting cover songs on YouTube, the suburban British teen mustered the courage to upload her first original— a meditation on police brutality called “Blue Lights”—to SoundCloud. And so began the ascent of a star. “I don’t want to disappoint myself, so I just kind of let things happen,” Smith says, reminiscing about the song’s sudden appearance on London radio playlists. Her fir...
