A New Zealand singer/songwriter who found mainstream national success with her 2012 debut, Jamie McDell initially made warm-toned confessional folk-pop. After two high-charting albums with major-label EMI, she went independent and adopted a more organic, country-inspired tone on her self-released 2019 album, Extraordinary Girl.
The Auckland native spent part of her youth living aboard her family's yacht where she first learned to play guitar, singing John Denver and Jimmy Buffett songs alongside her parents. In her early teens, McDell began to uploading her music to YouTube, ...