In the artist's words:

Jasmine Jethwa's path to her personal vocal style began in a melting pot of Western and Indian culture, influenced by the personal experiences of growing up in London, combined with a natural flair for melody and harmony.

As a child she visited her grandfather, who had worked his way up from humble beginnings in North Shields to become a successful scenic painter, designing sets for countless theatrical performances and ballets in London and around the world. It was after seeing these performances by dancers in beautiful sets that Jasmine first fell in love with dancing herself. She started training at a young age and learned contemporary, jazz, ballet, tap and modern.
"I used to write music on my worn-out old keyboard on the side," she laughs, "but to be honest, I never thought I was particularly good. I can read music a bit and play the keys to write tunes, but it's more the tunes and the writing that I feel good at.... So I liked music, but I thought, dancing is what I'm going to do." However, when Jasmine took up a full-time study of dance, she discovered that she no longer fell in love with movement, but was instead more drawn to what was just her hobby on the side, looking longingly at the music studios across the hall. Eventually, she trusted her gut and left school to focus on music. "I definitely like a drive and a rhythm in my songs," she says when asked if her dance background plays a role in the kind of music she makes now, "I want to feel like I can move to it or be emotionally touched by it."
Jasmine enjoyed watching Bollywood films with her Gujarati grandmother as a child: "In terms of singing, I think that had some influence," she says of the many Hindi songs she has internalized.

Jasmine creates almost magical acoustic folk-pop songs with her full voice, bursting with emotion. It perhaps makes sense when she describes the music she was most interested in as a child: "The earliest memories I have are of going to my grandparents' house and listening to different music on my dad's iPod in the car," she recalls. "There was David Gray, Tracy Chapman, Dido, Gipsy Kings, The Eagles - old songs, classic albums. And I feel like they got into my psyche. I'm obsessed with any kind of acoustic, well-played guitar". Although she can't play the instrument herself, she often collaborates with various songwriters who focus on this type of music to ensure that the guitar is always a focal point in her own pieces.