Jhene Aiko is a 25-year-old American singer and songwriter from Los Angeles. She began her career at age 5 when she met producer Chris Stokes, and later signed with Epic Records through B2K. Her debut mixtape "Sailing Souls" focused on themes of love. Aiko writes music every day, from lines or poems that she then sets to melodies. She finds being under the influence of cannabis helps with the creative process of writing songs.

2. Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo, better known as Jhene
Aiko or simply Jhene is an 25 year old American
signer-songwriter and recording artist from Los
Angeles, California.
Jhene has two older sisters, Miyoko and Jamila who
were in the R&B group ‘Gyrl’. This led Jhene to meet
producer Chris Stokes when she was just five years
old. Later on, he heard her sing and when B2K
were signed to Epic Records so was Jhene. When
she first began her career, she was known as Lil
Fizz’s cousin (one of the members of B2K)
however, this was just a marketing tool suggested
by Sony and Epic to promote her through B2K.
On 16th December 2011, Jhene signed a recording
contract with ‘Artium’ record label , distributed
through Def Jam Recordings.

3. The dominant theme of Jhene Aiko’s songs is Love. This is evident in her debut
mixtape ‘Sailing Souls’ with songs such as ‘My mine’ and ‘Higher’ which through
the lyrical content we know are related and inspired by love. Aiko commented
on her writing style expressing ‘I write something everyday regardless if it’s a
one liner, a poem or a prolific thought that I though throughout the day. ‘
Aiko writes music everyday, often writing lines or a poem and begins to ad
them to melodies. She describes her writing style as ‘freestyle’ simply because
she is stating how she is feeling, this can take from a day to a month to
complete. Interestingly Aiko admitted that whilst writing music she enjoys
being high in order to use the feeling as inspiration and that throughout the
entire writing and recording process of her debut mixtape ‘Sailing souls’ she
was under the influence of cannabis. Whilst writing for her debut studio album,
she did the same however; she recorded while she was sober. She places great
importance on writing her own music as she believes it defines her as an artist.
She said ‘After each song I’ve lost a piece of me, because I've put it in to the song.’

4. www.jheneaiko.com

5. The previous slide shows the current layout and appearance of Jhene Aiko’s
website.
HOME PAGE:
The home page contains all of her recent songs and as well as her most recent
music video ‘The worst’. The background image is the album cover of her EP ‘Sail
Out’. An extended play (EP) is essentially a mini album because it contains more
than a single, but not enough to qualify as a full studio album.
BLOG:
The blog tab of the website directs us to Jhene Aiko’s tumblr page. Tumblr is a
micro blogging platform and social networking website which allows users to
post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. This creates a personal
relationship between Jhene and her fans because they are able to see what she’s
doing on a day to day basis as she blogs quiet frequently.
EMAIL SIGNUP:
This tab allows fans to signup to the website and leave a comment.
The other tabs on the page, MEDIA, STORE & EVENTS are all currently empty.

6. ‘Bed Peace’ Ft Childish
Gambino
‘3:16am’ ‘The Worst’
Above are three screenshots from three different music videos by Jhene Aiko.
We can see that medium close-ups are a consistent shot used. This could be
because Jhene is attractive and R&B females tend to use their sexuality to sell
their music. This is something I will take into consideration when creating my
music video.

8. KEYSHIA COLE
MIGUEL
MELANIE FIONA
FRANK OCEAN