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Jamie T

The ramshackle Wimbledon troubadour born Jamie Alexander Treays (8 January 1986) in Wimbledon, London, was drawn to music when he discovered that it calmed the panic attacks he suffered as a teenager. Making mixtapes and DIY beats in his bedroom, he started writing songs on an acoustic bass, telling stories about the characters he found in the spit and sawdust South London pubs where he'd started to play. As early single "Sheila" (2006) sang of binge-drinking tragedies, his drawled mockney raps about the rough end of society brought comparisons with Mike Skinner, Ian Dury and Bil...