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Jane Walker is a singer and songwriter based in Sydney, Australia. Her album “Walk Gently,” with its anthemic song ‘Walk Gently on the Earth’, is a soulful dive into the deep and the single has tellingly been used by Ocean Recovery Alliance for its promotional videos. “With warm delicate grooves, Jane’s songs speak in the spirit of the soul – definitely one not to miss!” Claire Scobie The Telegraph (UK).
Walker has since become an ambassador for
For the single ‘Ancient Land’, Walker collaborated with Indigenous Australian hip-hop group Street Warriors and the open prayer for unity they create hears both Walker and the band’s rapper, Predator sharing about the issue from different perspectives.
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In 2014, ‘Ancient Land’ was selected as
The album “Walk Gently” was produced by Steve James, co-produced by Barbara Griffin and Walker, mixed by James and David Hemming, with contributors including Chris Difford, Adam Levy, Steve Hillier, Bobby Flynn, James Cruickshank, Hamish Stuart, James
View Album Credits of ‘Walk Gently’.
Walker is trained in classical and jazz disciplines from the NSW Conservatorium of Music. She sang for two years with Sydney’s a cappella outfit The Café of the Gates of Salvation, and then travelled to Africa and made her first recordings with the legendary Thomas Mapfumo’s band, The Blacks Unlimited, in Zimbabwe.
London came next. While performing at the 12 Bar Club in Soho by night and working as a waitress by day in the financial City district, Walker wrote one of her first songs, ‘Threadneedle Street’, about the cold atmosphere of greed and self-interest she encountered there. Produced by UK DJ-composer Pete Lazonby, the track (aka ‘Only Love Will Lift Us Up’) was chosen for the compilation album, “Foundations: Coming up from the Streets,” alongside tracks by Massive Attack and Radiohead.
“‘Threadneedle Street’ was written at a special moment in time. I was
Walker has performed at various festivals and venues including