From the age of three, learning jazz standards round the old piano with her dad, Duke Lewis, she revealed a natural talent for singing, songwriting, storytelling and harmonising.

Sarah Jay started turning heads performing jazz and blues in pubs and working men’s clubs as a kid. At the tender age of thirteen, her mum died, leaving the home without a keystone, and it quickly fell apart. Age fifteen she got a working-class golden ticket out of poverty and into Art School.

Hundreds of gigs and thousands of hours were spent building skills and a reputation in Sarah Jay’s new home, Sheffield. The steel city, as it’s known, was alive with music. Collaborating with DJs and session singing became her main focus.

In 1991, (the UKs legendary second summer of love) Sarah Jay released her first single ‘Yeah You’ with The Step, on the ground-breaking label ‘Warp Records’. Sarah Jay spent the nineties partying, performing live across Europe and America and recording sessions on more than eighty 12 inch records with DJ’s and techno heads.   

After singing at the Billboard Convention in San Francisco with dance producer Charles Webster, Sarah Jay moved to London where she was discovered by Massive Attack, who needed collaborators for their album, Mezzanine.

After writing ‘Wire’, the soundtrack to Michael Winterbottoms’ film Welcome To Sarajevo. Sarah Jay toured the world with Massive Attack and co-wrote the sultry ‘Dissolved Girl’ for Mezzanine, which made it onto many soundtracks, including ‘The Matrix’, ‘The Jackal’ and ‘Westworld’.