Jack Penate

Jack Peñate emerged in the mid-2000s with an exuberant, radio-ready pop that had its roots in the 2-Tone ska revival and the more soulful of '80s pop, along the lines of countrymen the Style Council and the Housemartins.

Making his full-length debut in 2007 with Matinee, Peñate took a decade-long break between 2009's Everything Is New and the more soulful electro-pop of his third album, 2019's After You, while he strived learn more on the production and recording end of making music.\r Jack Fabian Peñate was born in the London suburb of Blackheath in 1984.

While still in his teens, he formed a band called Jack's Basement, which also featured his schoolmate Felix White, later lead guitarist for neo-Britpop act the Maccabees.