Live Event: In Conversation with Jamelia, Multi-Award Winning Artist

TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big
Tent - Live Events! Performance Week​. Part of the Humanities
Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future
Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Join us for an
in-conversation with multi-award winning artist, Jamelia, as we
explore themes related to music, performance, and what it means to
be an artist on lockdown. Join Dr Yvonne Liao (Music Faculty,
University of Oxford) and Dr Priya Atwal (Kings College London) as
they discuss all things music, performance, representation,
education, home schooling with Jamelia. Jamelia is a mutli-award
winning musician, presenter and an advocate for women and girls.
Her career has spanned over 20 years, beginning when she was just
15. ​ Jamelia has topped the charts in the UK, Australia, Thailand
and Italy and toured the world with ​Usher, Destiny’s child and
Justin Timberlake to name a few. ​She has received awards from The
Mobo’s, Q Awards, Ivor Novellos and a Mercury Music Prize. ​Jamelia
also models and has graced the covers of Elle, Cosmopolitain and
Harpers Bazaar. ​Branching out into acting, presenting and writing,
Jamelia uses her expansive career and life ​experience to empower,
inspire and ignite those around her. ​ She has authored an array of
documentaries including “Whose hair Is it Anyway” which she says
​was life changing for her, and the emotional “Shame About Single
Mums” both for the BBC.​ As if the above wasn’t enough, Jamelia is
a loving Wife, and describes her most important role as ​being
“Mummy” to her 3 gorgeous Daughters and adorable Son. ​She sees her
children as her greatest success!​ Jamelia is currently working on
multiple projects, including a new album, TV show, book, haircare
​line, and her Girlz Club Programs in partnership with her
daughters’ business, Magic Girlz. Dr Yvonne Liao is a Leverhulme
Early Career Research Fellow in the Music Faculty at the University
of Oxford. Yvonne is a music historian and during her career has
also worked at Naxos Records and Universial Music Hong Kong. During
her time in Oxford, Yvonne has also co-founded the Colonial Ports
and Global Histories Network (CPAGH) and is a member of the TORCH
Management Committee. Dr Priya Atwal is a Teaching Fellow in Modern
South Asian History at Kings College London. In addition to her
research as a historian, Priya has a lot of experience working in
the areas of public engagement, history, museums and heritage, and
University outreach particularly including her research on Queen
Victoria, and most recently appearing as part of the BBC4
documentary on 'The Stolen Maharajah'. ​