Jessy

Jessy De Smet was born the 8th of July 1976 in Zottegem. Both her mother and father are performing in bands and she has a brother who is only 18 months older than Jessy.

Already at the age of 8, Jessy started singing. Since her parents are musicians, a musical career for Jessy was the first logical choice. As her parents were performing with "Willy Sommers" (a well-known Belgian artist) every weekend, he asked Jessy to record a single with him. This single was called "Twee Vrienden" (Two friends) and scored pretty good in the Belgian charts.

About a year and a half later, "Marijn De Valck" (also the top of the Belgian entertainment), who lived in the same town as Jessy, asked her to record a song called "Vang het licht" (catch the light). All the money earned with this song, was donated to the Belgian Federation of Autism. In the meanwhile Jessy's parents started their own band, "Jennifer Band" in which Jessy started singing at the age of 12.

In 1996 Jessy meets "The Mackenzie", with whom she produces her first dance-single "I Am Free", which turned out to be a big club hit. In 1998, they attacked the charts again with "Love" and "You Got To Get Up" which are slightly different because of the amount of lyrics in the songs. It is in June of 1998 that "Innocence" was released, the biggest hit Mackenzie featuring Jessy ever had, selling more than 25,000 copies in Belgium, earning them a golden CD. Being the longest registered song in the charts of 1998, Mackenzie featuring Jessy received the "ULTRATOP DANCE CHART AWARD 1998. In September of that same year, they released "Falling In Love", with this song another golden CD was achieved.

Only 2 months later they released "Alive", and in April of 1999 "Out of Control" was released.The same month the album "Angel" writes history, after only 3 weeks, the album goes straight to Number 1, which has never been achieved with any dance-album in Belgium. "Angel" also won the TMF-award for "BEST ALBUM OF 1999. Jessy was also nominated for "best female singer" and "best dance-act".

In August of 1999 "The Rain" is released. The success of the group is enormous so one could see Jessy on national television or in interviews all the time. With the group she does at least 4 shows per weekend. After this busy summer, in December there is "Emotions", followed in April of 2000 by "Be My Lover".In September 2000 the single "For You" is released.

In December of 2000, Mackenzie released "All I Need", which scores almost as good as "Innocence" and "Falling in Love". And then finally, the last single together with Mackenzie, "Walk Away", is released in April 2001.

After this really busy period Jessy decided to have a break in her career and to regain fun in performing as a singer. In this period she starts doing guest performances in a cover band called "Made In Belgium" and she has a lot of fun doing this. After several proposals from all over Europe, she decides to start a new project with Belgian most famous producers Regi Penxten and Filip Vandueren. The names behind Milk Inc., Sylver etc.

The three start working on a new single, for which Jessy wrote the lyrics herself again. The first single "Look @ Me Now" is released on vinyl in July 2002 and on CD in August 2002. "Look @ Me Now" was be released by AGM, the studio and record company where Regi and Filip are doing most of their productions. Together with a total new look and a superb video clip, the new Jessy starts a new and hopefully even bigger career. Three weeks number 8 and 16 weeks in the official Belgian chart in total is the result. Ministry of Sound released the track in the UK with a entry at number 29 in the UK-charts as result.

The single "Head Over Heels" reached number 26 after two weeks charting. In 2010 she released Sash! Feat Jessy – "All Is Love" and "Missing".

In 2011, she returned with a new song together with Kaliq Scott & DJ Rebel called "Angel", also her best of album "The Ultimate Jessy" is now available with 17 of her greatest hits and 4 new tracks!!! "X-Tof* Featuring Jessy – "Move Your Body", DJ Rebel Featuring Jessy – "Think About The Way 2011 and Jessy Featuring Abie Flinstone -" Innocence". Now in 2012 Jessy is still going strong as she teams up with Belgian DJ/producer Ian Prada, to release the smash hit, Jessy Featuring Ian Prada – "Impossible". She also released Live & Acoustic For MNM 90s Café" on Mostiko Records.

On stage Jessy is one of the few singers in the dance-scene that sings live. During the show she is accompanied by some of the best dancers in Belgium, doing their performance on a choreography by Isabelle Bequet. The live-show is known to knock the roofs of the establishments. Watch for many more exciting things in 2013, because Jessy is here to stay.