Jaykae

Jaykae's start with music began when he started listening to other grime artists from London.

In 2017 "Every Country", a single from Jaykae with Murkage Dave (of the Murkage cartel) which was produced by Skepta, was Radio 1's Tune of the Week.[2] He has featured on Charlie Sloth's BBC show, Fire In The Booth, where he performed a two piece set which reflected on life and the recent passing of a fellow grime artist, and friend, Depzman. He has performed on the BBC radio show segment, The BBC Live Lounge, where he performed two of his own songs, "Moscow" and "Toothache", and also a cover of Cameo's "Candy".[3] Jaykae has been described as the "essential voice of the city" of Birmingham.[4][5][6]

He featured on Skepta's All-Star Remix of the single '"That's not me". He collaborated with Mike Skinner (of The Streets) producing the tracks "CCTV" and "Boys Will Be Boys".[7] Jaykae has performed at Glastonbury, MADE, Reading Festival, Creamfields and Wireless Festival.[8][9][10][11] He supported Skepta on his Konnichiwa tour, supported Stormzy at one of his gigs, and will also be supporting The Streets on their upcoming Greatest Hits tour. Jaykae was brought out at Drake's 2019 Birmingham concert. Jaykae completed his first solo headline tour in December 2017, where he performed in Manchester, London and Birmingham.

Jaykae's "Toothache" featured on the TV series Power.[12]

In 2019 Jaykae appeared in the BBC Three comedy-drama Man Like Mobeen, where he played local gangster Azar.

Khan was born and raised in Small Heath, Birmingham and has Afghan, Egyptian, Irish and Pakistani heritage.[13] He is an avid supporter of his local football club Birmingham City. He had a difficult childhood and was bullied as a young child. He faced many problems growing up after his father left when he was 6 years old.