JB Gill

JB Gill
JB performing on tour with JLS.
Born	Jonathan Benjamin Gill (1986-12-07) 7 December 1986 Croydon, England
Nationality	British
Education	King's College London Centre for Young Musicians (CYM)
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter, actor, Farmer, Presenter
Years active	2006–Present
Employer	ITV2
Known for	JLS (2006–2013)
Television	All Star Mr & Mrs (2013) The X Factor UK (2008) Children in Need (2010, 2011, 2012)
Spouse	Chloe Tangney ​ (m. 2014)​ [1]
Parent(s)	Cynthia and Keith Gill
Musical career
Genres	Pop, R&B, dance
Instrument	Vocals
Years active	2006–2013 On hiatus: 2013–Present
Labels	Epic - RCA - O Street - Jive
Website	official twitter

Jonathan Benjamin Gill (born 7 December 1986) is a British singer, songwriter, dancer and television personality. He is best known for being a member of the British boyband JLS who were the runners-up to Alexandra Burke in the fifth series of The X Factor. After a successful 5 years, JLS split in December 2013.

He was the last one to be recruited by Oritse Williams for his "musical ear." JLS released many albums including: JLS, OUTTA THIS WORLD, JUKEBOX, EVOLUTION AND GOODBYE, GREATEST HITS. They also released other singles.

Early life

Gill is the son of Cynthia and Keith Gill, and has one brother called Neequaye. He spent the first five years of his life living in Antigua, discovering his musical talent at a very early age. After completing his exams at university, he decided to audition for The X Factor in 2007. It was at this point that he came into contact with the other members of JLS. Gill grew up, mostly, in Croydon and began making music at the age of seven when he played the recorder, piano, flute and guitar. At the age of nine, he joined the choir and went onto perform at the local church. Gill concentrated on his music and began studying at The Centre for Young Musicians (CYM). All the latest official news, After leaving the CYM, Gill stayed involved with the school music scene. He was involved with the choir at school. He continued this until he was 15 but had to give it up due to the pressures from the school to concentrate on his rugby career; he was involved with London Irish rugby club until he was 18. Gill eventually decided that he wanted to sing rather than play rugby and took up vocal coaching during a year out before attending university. During this period, Gill was contacted by Oritse to try out for the band because of his musical ear and attention to harmonies. He studied theology at King's College London, staying in halls in Russell Square, before dropping out to pursue a music career.

In December 2012, he won the Christmas special of Strictly Come Dancing, performing the Jive with Ola Jordan.

JB Gill is now an owner of a farm in Scotland and he will take a pause from music and start a different life as a farmer.'JLS JB’s JCB: Singer buys tractor to be a 'farmer' In January 2014 it was revealed that JB will team up with DJ and music producer Charlie Hedges to release his debut solo single Best Night of My Life, making him the first member of JLS to release solo materiel.

Gill started dating backing dancer Chloe Tangney in late 2008, the couple announced their engagement on the 25 January, 2014 and they wed on 3 May, 2014.

Music career

2006–08: Beginnings & The X Factor

Oritsé Williams decided to get into the music business mainly. He was originally scouted for a number of boy bands but did not feel they were right, Williams decided to form his own boy band and, through friends, met Marvin Humes who had experience in R&B and pop music, being a part of VS in 2004. Next to join was Aston Merrygold, who was once cast in the ITV children's programme Fun Song Factory, because of his athletic Last to join the group was JB Gill, for his "musical ear" and harmonies. They bonded, became friends and together they were called UFO (an initialism of Unique Famous Outrageous). They signed to Tracklacers developing a sound they then called "Jack the Lad Swing", combining the phrase "Jack the lad" and the urban music of New Jack Swing. While working their way into the music business, UFO instantly signed to Epic Records, before winning their first award in late 2007 at the Urban Music Awards for Best Unsigned Act thanks to their mash-up of "Stand by Me" by Ben E. King and "Beautiful Girls" by Sean Kingston. Shortly thereafter, they released their second single, "Slap Ya Elbow UFO / JLS Stand By Me Beautiful Girl Music Video By Kimberley Sterling Dec 2007 – YouTube, The group give credit to 'DJ Triz' who produced one of UFO's first songs and helped them write it.

In 2008, UFO auditioned for the fifth series of The X Factor, but had to change their name because it was already being used by another group, so they decided to go with the name JLS (an initialism of Jack the Lad Swing, the style created with Tracklacers some months back). Following the elimination of girl groups Bad Lashes and Girlband in weeks one and two respectively, JLS were Louis Walsh's last remaining act in the competition, but throughout the live shows the judges called them the best band to come out of The X Factor. In week 7, JLS were in the bottom two along with Rachel Hylton. However, they survived thanks to votes from Walsh, Cheryl Cole and Simon Cowell. Cowell stated when casting his deciding vote that JLS did not deserve to be in the bottom two. In week 8, JLS performed "...Baby One More Time" and received negative comments from two of the four judges, with Cowell saying "at the moment you're out", but after their second performance, "You Light Up My Life", Cowell commented that they were "back in the race" and that they could "have a hit record" with the performance.

In week 9, JLS performed "Umbrella" and "I'm Already There". Cowell then predicted they would win the competition, Simon says JLS could win the whole show! They made it to the final and performed their own version of the winner's song, "Hallelujah", which the other finalist Alexandra Burke also performed. The public voted for the second time that night and Burke won the competition, JLS coming second. They were the fourth band to make the final. Following their success on The X Factor, Cowell's record company, Syco, announced that they were to sign JLS with an advance payment of £75,000.Boshoff, Alison. "The Cash Factor...", The Daily Mail, 16 December 2008. The Sun later reported on 20 January 2009 that Cowell had revoked this offer, having instead decided to focus on Alexandra Burke."JLS Epic">Smart, Gordon. "Eog & JLS Quigg off the mark", The Sun, 17 January 2009 JLS's manager thought the band would be well suited to Epic Records, with whom they signed a record contract in January 2009.

2009–13: JLS & disbandment

Main article: JLS

After meeting future fellow band member Oritsé Williams, Humes joined boyband UFO. He then encouraged future band mate and acquaintance Aston Merrygold to audition for the boyband. However, after auditioning for The X Factor, UFO changed their name to JLS, a name thought up by Humes' girlfriend at the time. Following their appearance on The X Factor, JLS signed to Epic Records. Their first two singles "Beat Again" and "Everybody in Love" both went to number one on the UK Singles Chart.X Factor's JLS top singles charts oust Cole from top of chart November 2009 November 2009 The band's self-titled debut album was released on 9 November 2009, JLS Official Web Site 6 November 2009|date=2 November 2009 and has since sold over 1 million copies in the UK. JLS won the awards for British Breakthrough and British Single ("Beat Again") at the 2010 BRIT Awards. They also won several awards at the Mobo awards for Best song for "Beat Again" in 2009 and also Best Newcomer in the same year. In 2010 they won the MOBO Awards for Best UK act and Best Album. They also went on to win their fifth MOBO Award in 2012 by winning Best Video for "Do You Feel What I Feel?". They won the title of the UK's hardest-working band for two constitutive years, in 2011 and 2012.

JLS Performs at KISS FM 103.5 Chicago Radio on April 20, 2010.

In 2010, JLS signed a record deal in the United States with Jive Records, and released "Everybody in Love" as their debut US single, but it failed to chart. On 24 April 2013, it was announced that the band were to split after their fifth album and tour. They released their last book as a band called Forever and a Day, One Last Goodbye X on 24 October 2013. JLS' last ever performance was on 22 December 2013 on the last night of their "Goodbye - The Greatest Hits Tour".

2013–Present: Life after JLS

After JLS announced their Split, Gill put his music career on hold to become a Farmer since 2013 Gill is a proud owner of a Farm in Kent, England, JB released his first solo single 'Best Night of My Life'.

Television career

• The X Factor (2008)
• Children in Need (with JLS)
• This Is JLS (Christmas special)

Discography

• 'Best Night of My Life' (TBC)

Album	Chart positions
	UK	IRE	EU	JPN
"Best Night Of My Life"	—	-	-	-

Tours

• The X Factor Tour 2009 (February – March 2009)
• Only Tonight Theatre Tour (January – March 2010) (Released on UK DVD on 6 December 2010)
• Summer Tour 2010 (June – July 2010) (Supported by Diana Vickers)
• Outta This World Arena Tour (December 2010 – January 2011) (Supported by Edei, Starboy Nathan, and Six D)
• Summer Tour 2011 (June – July 2011) (Supported by Olly Murs, Alexis Jordan and The Kixx)
• The 4th Dimensions Tour (March – September 2012) (Supported by Starboy Nathan and Vida)
• Goodbye - The Greatest Hits Tour (December 2013) (Supported by NVS, Hatty Keane and Mike Hough)

Personal life

JB and Chloe married on 3rd May 2014 [2]

Other Ventures

Product and endorsements

In September 2010 an "JB doll" was launched, alongside the other 3 members of JLS.

Durex teamed up with JLS to produce a condom range called "Just Love Safe", with each member of the group having their own box. JLS also released they're iconic hoodie range

Philanthropy

JLS founded "The JLS Foundation", re-launch JLS Foundation with INCREDIBLE fan competition a foundation that sets out to raise money for 6 different charities: Cancer Research UK, Rays of Sunshine, Brook, Childline, BeatBullying and the MS Society. Despite the bands split, the foundation still remains active.

JB is an ambassador for the charity Rays of Sunshine Children's Charity. JLS also helped raise money for Comic Relief, appearing in comedy sketches with both Miranda Hart, JLS and Louis Spence join forces for Comic Relief, James Corden and Justin Bieber were hilarious in Comic Relief.
In 2012, JLS visited Uganda for Sport Relief, and appearing in VT's throughout the show. Melanie C, JLS and Kimberley Walsh shed some sweat for charity as they join a host of celebrities to run the Sport Relief mile.
In total, JLS have appeared in 5 charity singles: A cover of Hero (Mariah Carey song) as part of the X Factor 2008 finalists (for Help for Heroes), Wishing On A Star Xfactor finalists ft. JLS and One Direction (For organization Together for Short Lives) Love You More (JLS song) (for Children In Need), Proud (JLS song) (for Sport Relief) and Everybody hurts (for Helping Haiti). 4 out of 5 of these charity singles got to number one on the UK singles chart.

External links

• JLS Website
• The JLS Foundation
• JB Gill on Twitter
• JB Gill on Facebook