That was in 2023, when her song Giving Me made her the first Irish female singer to top the Irish chart in more than 14 years. House-y, hopeful and expansive, Giving Me was the earworm that clubbers loved, Calvin Harris<\/a> praised, and radio stations from Spin to RT\u00c9 Radio 1 played. <\/p>\n As she sits in a brocaded chair in a private room in Dublin\u2019s Dylan hotel, Jazzy \u2013 born Yasmine Byrne \u2013 admits now that the pub round wasn\u2019t as spontaneous as it might have seemed. \u201cMy team definitely gave me a little pinch to do it,\u201d she laughs. \u201cIt\u2019s not easy to stand up in a pub.\u201d <\/p>\n Jazzy might look the part of an international superstar \u2013 today she\u2019s wearing black denim shorts and a tight black top with simple jewellery and dark-framed glasses \u2013 but she\u2019s naturally humble and down to earth, and still coming to grips with her changed circumstances. <\/p>\n From working in the bakery section in Tesco in 2021, Jazzy spent this summer touring and supporting Harris, with whom she also released the single Satisfy. She was nominated for a Brit Award in 2024 and 2025, and a MOBO Award in 2026. In 2025, she became the most popular female DJ on Spotify<\/a> with 10 million monthly listeners. She did a BBC Radio 1 residency and debuted at Coachella festival in the US. Later this month, she will release her first album Peace & Patience, and play the 3Arena<\/a> on October 24th, her biggest headlining venue to date. <\/p>\n When we meet she\u2019s barely off the plane from Ibiza \u2013 she was there to DJ in Pacha nightclub, making her one of the few people on the lively Dublin to Ibiza flight \u201ctrying to go to work\u201d rather than party their nut off. \u201cMore than likely, someone\u2019s getting arrested when they\u2019re getting off the flight, that\u2019s how crazy they are. They\u2019d be screaming and singing.\u201d <\/p>\n She\u2019ll be back on a plane at the end of the month for another US tour. \u201cI feel the love when I go over. Playing there, people are coming up asking for old Jazzy tracks. But it\u2019s a huge place, so we have to keep going back and keep going back.\u201d<\/p>\n She\u2019s not stressed about her hectic schedule \u2013 \u201cIn music if you put too much pressure on yourself, you\u2019re not going to get what you\u2019re supposed to be getting naturally out of it\u201d \u2013 but she does have a case of impostor syndrome. <\/p>\n \u201cI see all these things I\u2019ve done and all these statistics about me, and then sometimes I\u2019ll still be like, \u2018You\u2019re sh \u2026\u2019\u201d She whispers a word. <\/p>\n I lean in. \u201cShy?\u201d I suggest. She starts laughing. \u201cShite!\u201d she whispers. \u201cSorry! No, I\u2019m not over it [impostor syndrome]. It\u2019s something that comes in waves. I think it\u2019s because I\u2019m honest as well. The humble side of me is struggling to be in the spotlight.\u201d<\/p>\n Yasmine Byrne was raised by her single mother, Catherine, on a council estate in Crumlin, with her brother Ian and sister Tasha. Her father is black and her mother white \u2013 her father, she says, \u201cwas never in the picture\u201d. Her mother noticed early on that her daughter was musical: Yasmine was bopping her head in time to music while in the buggy. \u201cShe had CDs on all the time and it was a complete mix,\u201d Jazzy says of her mother. \u201cShe loved Joe Dolan. She loved Dolly Parton. She loved Creedence Clearwater Revival. And she loved clubland music.\u201d <\/p>\n In third class, Yasmine was enrolled in a music programme that had started at St Agnes\u2019 Primary School on Armagh Road, created by Joanna Crooks, former general manager of the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland, and Sr Bernadette Sweeney, then principal of the school. The initiative offered free music lessons and instruments for pupils. When Yasmine took up the violin, the pair soon noticed her abilities. <\/p>\n When I phone St Agnes\u2019 Primary School to ask if they remember their former student, Sr Bernadette returns my call immediately. \u201cJazzy blew people away by her playing because she was so understated. She\u2019s a beautiful violinist, deeply musical. She wasn\u2019t all about herself, and when you\u2019re not all about yourself, your soul speaks through the music. She started with nothing, no music, no nothing, and worked all the way up.<\/p>\n \u201cAll the children know Jazzy. She inspired so many here. I go into shops and people say, \u2018Is Jazzy one of yours?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018I realised that what I wanted to be was behind the decks. It\u2019s part of my evolution\u2019<\/p>\n Because Yasmine lived a little far from the school, frequently one of the teachers would pick her up, ferrying her back and forth. She was one of 20 in the class. <\/p>\n \u201cWe all had a square patch of carpet to stand on,\u201d Jazzy recalls. \u201cYour violin would be there and you\u2019d pick it up and the violin teacher, Pauline, she\u2019d come around the class and scout people who were holding the violin well or bowing nicely. If she thought you were doing well, she\u2019d pull you aside and say, \u2018Would you like to join the orchestra? You can come after school and then you can practise more.\u2019 So that\u2019s what happened. She asked me.\u201d<\/p>\n At home, she would sing \u201cto the four walls\u201d. She loved Fugees and 1990s R&B. She\u2019d try out her vocals covering Lauryn Hill\u2019s Killing Me Softly. But she was hesitant about singing in public. When a teacher announced they were creating a choir, \u201cI had to be pushed,\u201d she says. \u201cPhysically. My friend said, \u2018Go up, you have to audition.\u2019 She pushed me to go up and sing and then I was singing ever since that.\u201d She got more comfortable, singing solos, developing her sense of pitch and melody. <\/p>\n After taking her grade eight exams for violin, she planned to become a music teacher: she left education at 16 and was working in the school as an assistant violin teacher. But another genre of music was creeping into her life: house music. After nights out at Sin on Sycamore Street in Temple Bar, and dancing to DJ gigs headlined by Amine Edge & DANCE, a French house duo, she asked a friend of a friend if he might teach her to DJ. That friend, Ross Mooney, became her boyfriend, and then her fiance. <\/p>\n She started recording and releasing music with the hip-hop group Powerful Creative Minds. About the same time, Sr Bernadette went around the local shops and asked if they\u2019d give Jazzy a job. \u201cI remember going to one of the supermarkets and saying, \u2018I would be delighted if you could give Jazzy a job to keep her going. She\u2019s no Mickey Mouse, no ordinary girl coming for a job, she\u2019s very talented.\u2019 So they gave her the job.\u201d<\/p>\n At Tesco, Jazzy was able to fit recording sessions in around work and help out financially at home. Then Mooney introduced her to Conor Bissett and Robbie Griffiths from Belters Only, and they wrote the song Make Me Feel Good together in the studio. \u201cAfter I met the Belters boys, it all started to kick off,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n When Belters Only released Make Me Feel Good featuring Jazzy\u2019s vocals in late 2021, it went on to top the Irish singles chart in 2022 and became a hit in Britain. It now has 132 million streams on Spotify. <\/p>\n The song was a crunch point. It was now or never. She went home and told her mother Catherine that she was thinking of leaving work. \u201cI sat down and said, \u2018What do you think I should do? Will you help me out?\u2019 She gave me the push. My ma was always really confident in me.\u201d <\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t an easy call. \u201cAfter Tesco, there was a period where I was like, I\u2019m not getting that many gigs. I did have to get another job in a pharmacy for a while.\u201d After her record label Polydor found out, \u201cthey were really good\u201d, she says. \u201cI was only there for three weeks and they found out and stepped in and made sure that I had the funds to be able go and do sessions, and everything else I needed.\u201d<\/p>\n When her first single Giving Me, hit the No 1 spot in the charts in 2023, \u201cCalvin Harris messaged me on Instagram telling me how much he loved the song,\u201d she says. \u201cIt started everything for me.\u201d<\/p>\n Her debut album may seem like it\u2019s been a long time coming \u2013 the word Patience isn\u2019t in the title for nothing \u2013 but getting it right is important to her. <\/p>\n [\u00a0Irish rapper Reggie: \u2018Dundalk\u2019s on top of the world right now. The centre of the universe\u2019Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t want to be looking back and saying, \u2018I wish I\u2019d changed that.\u2019 Some of the tracks were started two years ago so it\u2019s been quite a journey. I like being in the studio as much as I can. I\u2019m mostly in a studio in London with Mark Ralph, who produces all my vocals.\u201d Musically the record is a throwback, a closer cousin of Robin S\u2019s Show Me Love than Dua Lipa. \u201cI like that,\u201d she says. \u201cI don\u2019t want to fit in with everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n She knew early on in the making of the record that she wanted to shout out to her community in Crumlin who had supported her. \u201cI wanted to involve them,\u201d she says. But it took her a while to figure out how to bring them on to the record in a way that made sense musically. <\/p>\n Eventually she asked her family and friends to come to a pub, The Stoneboat on Sundrive Road in Kimmage, to talk on the microphone and be filmed. \u201cWe had the top room, a little function room,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen you\u2019re not used to it, a camera can be intimidating, or a microphone. We wanted it to feel as natural and relaxed as possible.\u201d Her friends did an interview together. \u201cAnd the lads that I used to be in a band with.\u201d<\/p>\n The result is one of the most joyful moments on the album \u2013 a spoken word-led introduction of about a minute long that gathers together affectionate sentiments from her friends, her family, even her six-year-old niece Savannah. \u201cTo hear your own child on the radio and all the stations are playing her songs,\u201d her mother says. \u201cShe\u2019s auntie,\u201d says Savannah. \u201cShe makes good music for the world.\u201d <\/p>\n Reggie<\/a>, the Nigeria-born, Dundalk-raised rapper who had a career-changing moment in 2025 when producer Fred Again remixed his song Talk of the Town, also guests on the song Elevate. \u201cHe\u2019s popping off at the moment,\u201d Jazzy says. \u201cI reached out because he\u2019s smashing it. I knew I wanted to have a rap verse on the song and it was just trying to find the right one. To have another Irish artist was great. I had done a few different ones with a couple of rappers from the UK, but Reggie\u2019s was the standout.\u201d<\/p>\n Soulful, uplifting and as easy to vacuum around the house to as to dance to in a club, Peace & Patience is a record that doubles as an endorphin boost. Her fans often tell Jazzy that her music has helped them through hard times. \u201cI\u2019m quite a happy person so I think when I go into the studio, that\u2019s what comes out,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m happy naturally. Ma always taught us to be kind growing up. I think that is just put into me.\u201d <\/p>\n She has experienced racism as she has become more successful, but she tries not to react to it. <\/p>\n \u201cIf I\u2019m being highlighted as a certain thing, and the statistic has the word \u2018Irish\u2019 in it, sometimes that will pee off the racist people,\u201d she says. \u201cI love chatting to people that like my music, taking pictures, I\u2019d do it all day. But there is the other side to social media. Nasty comments. I\u2019ve figured out not to always go into the comment section. Friends see things and they\u2019d be jumping in to defend me. Some people would be online, pointing out that I\u2019m mixed race. But I choose not to engage.\u201d<\/p>\n Her circle outside of music is small. When we meet she\u2019s about to celebrate her 30th birthday, but she has no intention of doing much beyond a casual night out. \u201cIt\u2019s just been so chaotic that I want to have a chill one,\u201d she says. The same is true of her wedding plans. \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019m going to have a big wedding. I wouldn\u2019t have the numbers.\u201d <\/p>\n![\"Jazzy:](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/FERFOJVZTJAUBBNXL2P43T25LM.jpg\")
Jazzy: Her debut album Peace & Patience is out on October 23rd <\/p>\n![\"Jazzy](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DJTISEDQJ5BEFAHNI45JCPGP4A.jpg\")
Jazzy plays Dublin\u2019s 3Arena on Saturday, October 24th <\/p>\n![\"Jazzy:](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/SMFLPMS455D33JYPPV2AUVSRPM.jpg\")
Jazzy: ‘I\u2019m quite a happy person so I think when I go into the studio, that\u2019s what comes out. I\u2019m happy naturally’ <\/p>\n
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Superfan Dory Hudson (8) from Tallaght with Jazzy and host Patrick Kielty on the set of The Late Late Toy Show last Christmas. Photograph: Andres Poveda\/RT\u00c9 <\/p>\n