Jessica Lois Ware is one of the most celebrated British songstress of the 2010s. After a collaboration with SBTRKT and touring as a backing vocalist for Jack Peñate, she released a collaboration with Sampha, Valentine, in 2011, and her debut album, the sophisticated Devotion, the year after to critical acclaim reviews and a Top 5 placement in the UK Official Charts. Her second album, the more elegant and sensual Tough Love, featuring work with Benny Blanco and Ed Sheeran, was released in 2014 to good reviews. She returned to the stage in 2017 and released the more personal Glasshouse , which gave her some of the her reviews at the time of her career. Her most recent effort, the nu-disco What's Your Pleasure?, released in 2020, gave her the best reviews of her career and her highest-charting position in the UK.

Known for her distinctive "songwriting" voice, Jessie is a renowned and acclaimed songwriter on her own right, involved on her work down to the minimum detail. Ware is a UNICEF UK ambassador and traveled with them to Bangladesh, Cameroon and North Macedonia to see the work they are doing there to help children who have fled violence.

Throughout her career, Jessie has been nominated for several awards including six Brit Awards nominations, four of them being for British Female Solo Artist. Also her debut album Devotion was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize for Album of the Year.