James Bay is a multi award-winning English singer-songwriter from Hitchin.
He released his debut multi-platinum selling single, "Let It Go" in 2014, which he followed with the multi platinum-selling: "Hold Back the River", which was nominated for a 2016 Grammy. Both singles were taken from 2015 debut album, Grammy-nominated, "Chaos and the Calm". Follow-up album, "Electric Light" was released in 2018, plus: "Leap" (2022).
He was shortlisted for the BBC Sound of 2015 award and won the Critics' Choice award at the 2015 Brit Awards, the "Best New Act" in the 2015 Q Awards. In 2016 he won a Brit Award in the "British Male Solo Artist" category, plus Ivor Novello and Q awards the same year.