MY Space: www.myspace.com/jessicapaigemuso Jessica Paige is a multi-award winning singer/songwriter from Melbourne. She plays solo and with her band, Jess & the Paige Boys. Her style is
alt-pop with a pinch of jazz. Jessica started busking on Swanston Street, Melbourne when she was 14 and she still busks often in Bourke Street Mall. There is no doubt that paying her dues by busking, probably the hardest gig of all, has been largely responsible for her ease in front of an audience. Jessica's EP Under My Skin was released November 2006 and a | JB (John Butler) Seed Grant assisted with promotion for her East Coast band tour that followed.
Under My Skin was been added to rotation on Qantas in-flight radio and ABC's online Oztrax. Her EP was
also featured on ABC radio in
Central Victoria. The cover of Rolling Stone came early to Jessica - as her song was added to the CD on the cover of that venerable magazine! Her track was accompanied by tracks from top Aussie musicians such as John Butler, Missy Higgins, The Waifs, The Cat Empire and many more. Jessica was pictured and profiled in the magazine. 2007 also brought the documentary about the huge St. Kilda Festival to Foxtel's The Max Music channel. Entitled "Launch of Legends", it featured an interview with Jessica and footage from her gig at the festival. The Autumn issue of Australian Musician magazine carried a picture and interview of Jessica as well. Jessica has been influenced by artists and bands that are strongly melodic and lyric-driven. Her own father is a master singer/songwriter, vocalist and guitar player (Steve Romig) .Jess released her first EP, "Back of Our Minds", in 2004 and it gradually collected several songwriting awards. The first song was awarded the APRA Songwriter Award at Musicoz. Jessica's first EP was partly funded by a grant from The Australia Council and songs are available by download only on over 60 download sites (like Itunes and JB HIFI downloads). Her album is in the works and has just received funding assistance from The Foundation for Young Australians! It should be ready later in 2008. Other Projects:
Howard and Paige Co-writing jazz project with Luke Howard. This is yielding some really beautiful songs. Luke is an amazing pianist and has won awards at the Montreaux Jazz competition as well as many other things. See page on this site. Cannon and Paige A jazz standards duo with multi award-winning jazz guitarist Glenn Cannon, suitable for all types of special events, parties and weddings. Jessica is also continuing to write/record funky house music with Jesse Bilewitz, Pop with Brett Collins of IRIS and Soul /R'nB with Jesse Bear. 
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AWARDS
2008
Jessica selected to play an Industry Showcase at the APRA Song Summit in Sydney, April . 2007
Glen Shorrock Scholarship, Special Mention
New Artists 2 Radio Awards Top 10 ( POP) 2006
Musicoz Finalist, Alternative, with song co-written with Jesse Bilewitz, "This Violet".
JB Seed Award for Band tour and Publicity.
Honourable Mention - Peacedriven Song Awards - for Strength Comes from the Inside
Honourable Mention in the Singer/Songwriter Awards (US) for Under My Skin
FBI Sydney Radio competition, recording award @ Sound Heaven
2005
International Unisong Competition-
Pop Ballad 4th place Under My Skin
ASA ( Australian Songwriters' Association) - It’s Crazy Baby, 5th Folk/Acoustic Category.
2004
Musicoz - APRA Songwriter Award
Musicoz - Top 10 Finalist - Pop Category Under My Skin
Best New Artist- Sound Vault, Melbourne
2003
Winner - The Ranges Songsmith Award
Top 10 of Rock It (National Youth Week Comp)
Winner - Hanging Rock Buskers' Festival Award.
Festival Appearances
St Kilda Festival '07 and '08, Corinbank Festival '08 ( ACT), Banyule Festival, The Melbourne Fringe Festival, The Sustainable Living Festival, The Mount Beauty Music Muster, The Ranges Festival, Maldon Folk Festival, Frankston International Guitar Festival, The Budburst Festival, The Maroondah Youth Festival, The Yackandandah Folk Festival and more. Gigs
Every Thursday night Jessica runs a "Jess and Friends" session at The Spleen Bar in Bourke Street, in the City. In the past year Jessica has performed more than 100 times solo and with her band, including a special series of Busker gigs at swanky Manchester Lane, band gigs at The HiFi Bar, The Evelyn Hotel,The Retreat, The Wesley Anne, The Cornish Arms, The Rob Roy, Ruby's Lounge, the grunge headquarters of Melbourne's live music scene,The Espy, and many more. Jessica has recently toured to Adelaide, Canberra, Warrnambool, Bendigo, Albury, Shepparton, Sydney, Newcastle, Port Macquarie, Wauchope, Byron Bay, Brisbane and Noosa. Radio Play
Jessica has songs on various podcasts, net radio stations and TripleJ Unearthed.
National radio exposure on Barry Bissell's Top 20 Countdown
(syndicated Australia wide Austereo network) as well as community stations all over the country. Recent interviews: WBC 94.1fm (Melb), Coast fm (ABC), 4ZzZ Brisbane, The Pulse (Geelong), Bayfm ( Byron Bay), Plenty Valley FM ( Melbourne), Joy fm ( Melbourne), Synfm ( Melbourne), PBS (Melbourne, Triple R ( Melbourne), WBC (Melb. Eastern Suburbs). TV
Various live performances on Channel 31 over the years. It's Crazy Baby was placed on the Channel V series Backpackers and Under My Skin is on the soundtrack of the independent film "Offing David". Compilations
Manchester Lane "Then By Night" Aug 2006
Melbourne Live 2005 18 tracks of Melbourne Indie Artists
AIR Pop Compilation 2005 ( SxSW, Midem, Popkomm)
Musicoz Winners Compilation 2005 ( to SxSW)
Budburst Festival Artists 2004
Sound Vault Voices 2003 | 