Jack Peñate

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Jack Peñate (born 2 September 1984) is an English singer, songwriter, producer, and musician.

Peñate was born in London on 2 September 1984, the son of an English mother and Spanish father.^[1] His maternal grandfather was author Mervyn Peake.^[2] He attended St. Olave's Preparatory School in New Eltham and Alleyn's School in Dulwich, then began studying for a bachelor's degree in Ancient World Studies at University College London, but dropped out at the end of the second year as interest from record labels grew. He also was a member of the National Youth Theatre.

Peñate made his way up the ranks of the club and bar scene of London before he was signed by record label XL Recordings.

On 10 August 2007, he announced that his album would be released on 8 October and be titled Matinée. The album debuted at number seven in the UK album charts.

On 3 January 2009, XFM played a new track by Peñate called "Tonight's Today", the song ended up being the first single from his second album Everything Is New.

Throughout Peñate's second album tour in 2009, his bandmates included Jessie Ware on backing vocals, Kwes of Warp Records on keyboards / laptop and Tic of the record label Young on rhythm guitar.[9]

Jack Peñate, along with Chairlift, opened for The xx at the Central Park Summer Stage on Sunday 8 August 2010.

On 19 January 2012, Peñate recorded the song "No One Lied". Directed by Dani Castro, shot and recorded in one take at Peñate's home; the song was uploaded to Peñate's YouTube channel after a two-year hiatus of activity since 2010.

After You, the third album by Peñate, was released by XL in 2019. "Prayer" “Murder” and “Loaded Gun” were the singles from the album.^[3]

In 2020 the Noetics EP was self released including a version of “No One Lied”, followed by “Remember In New York”. “Crumbs” followed in 2021, and “Scars” in 2022.

In 2023 Peñate collaborated with Django Django featuring on their single “No Time”.

Peñate’s collaboration with Inflo and the collective Sault led to his contributions on the Mercury nominated Untitled (Rise)

In May 2023, 11 won the Ivor Novello Award for "Best Album", with producer Inflo, vocalists Cleo Sol and Chronixx, and Jack Peñate as recipients of the award.[1]

In November 2023, the group announced their first live performance, teasing that they would play an unreleased album of material.[14] They later elaborated that they would play seven shows that featured live performances of music from different albums.[15] The tour was initiated on 14 December in London, and featured songs from an at the time unreleased album Acts of Faith.

In January 2024 his fourth album “Wondrous Strange” was released on 77 Recordings in tribute to his late father.

In 2021, Peñate joined GROUP OF HUMANS® ^[4] a globally distributed community of creative leaders and change architects as a Musician & Creative Human.

• Peñate was featured on BBC Three's coverage of the Glastonbury Festival on Friday 22 June 2007.
• He has appeared at the Carling Weekend in Reading and Leeds. Two days after his performances at both festivals, he announced on a message on his MySpace that he would have to cancel two gigs the following week, due to severe damage to his throat which also resulted in him reducing his set length at the previous weekend's Carling Weekend.
• On 8 December 2007 he performed on the Later... with Jools Holland show sharing a bill with David Gray, Rilo Kiley, The Coral, Cleo Laine and John Dankworth, amongst others.
• During the summer of 2008, Jack Peñate played several live concerts with guest guitars from old school friend Felix White.^{[citation needed]} This included Peñate's set at Reading of August this year.
• Peñate has played gigs all over the UK on tour and has previously shared dates with his good friends Adele and The Maccabees. Peñate played at the 2007 Oxegen festival in Kildare, Ireland.
• Peñate was one of the contributors to the "Janie Jones" charity cover single.
• He was featured at music night 'Songs in the Dark' run by Jeremy Warmsley and Simon Mastrantone.
• Jack Peñate performed a cover of La Roux's "Bulletproof" at the Radio 1 Live Lounge.
• On 3 July 2009, he played at The Roundhouse in Camden Town, as part of the iTunes live festivals month.
• Jack Peñate, along with Chairlift, opened for The xx at the Central Park Summer Stage on Sunday 8 August 2010.

• In November 2023, Sault announced their first live performance, teasing that they would play an unreleased album of material.[14] They later elaborated that they would play seven shows that featured live performances of music from different albums.[15] The tour was initiated on 14 December in London at Drumsheds, and featured songs from an at the time unreleased album Acts of Faith. They later released the album as a free download on 6th July 2024.

Peñate is a long-time close friend of Adele, with whom he grew up.

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		UK [5]	UK Indie [5]
Matinée	Released: 8 October 2007 Label: XL	7	1
Everything Is New	Released: 22 June 2009 Label: XL	16	2
After You	Released: 29 November 2019[6] Label: XL	—	15
Wondrous Strange	Released: 7 January 2024[7] Label: 77	—	—

Title	Year	Peak chart positions
		UK [5]	UK Indie [5]
"Second, Minute or Hour"	2006	17	1
"Spit at Stars"[8][9]		—	—
"Torn on the Platform"	2007	7	1
"Have I Been a Fool"		73	3
"Tonight's Today"	2009	23	—
"Be the One"		35	3
"Pull My Heart Away"		99	—
"Prayer"	2019	—	—

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