Jack Newsome

During junior year of high school, Newsome joined the Manhattan-based boy band, NY5, along with the four other members including Dylan Hartigan, who later competed on the fourteenth season of The Voice. The band released the debut single, "NYC Girls" in July 2013, but soon went inactive.[5] After the disbandment of NY5, Newsome moved to Berlin, Germany to work with the boy band, New District, however decided to pursue his solo career and study at Berklee College of Music in Boston.[2] Later, New District was nominated at the 2016 Teen Choice Awards for the Next Big Thing category.

In February 2016, Newsome opened for Phillip Phillips at The Stone Pony along with A Great Big World and Matt Nathanson.[6] Newsome independently released his debut extended play, Medicine in March 2016. The following single, "Bellevue" was well-received by several music media, including Kick Kick Snare and Girl's Life.[7][8] In 2017, Newsome moved to Los Angeles and made money working as a session singer, while contributing the vocals for Said the Sky and Origami song, "Affection" (2018) and writing songs for the artists such as Plvtinum and Matt Sato.[2]

In June 2019, Newsome appeared in the third episode of the songwriting competition series, Songland, where he wrote and performed "Lying (Next to You)", co-written by Ryan Tedder, Ester Dean, Elsa Curran, Christina Galligan, Andrew DeRoberts, and Shane McAnally, who also produced the song. Although the song was not chosen by the guest artist, Kelsea Ballerini, the appearance earned him national recognition and led him to write Meghan Trainor song, "Hurt Me". "Lying (Next to You)" has been streamed more than a million times on Spotify as of September 2020. Following the appearance, Newsome signed with the label, Smack Songs as a singer-songwriter. His first single from the label, "All My Friends Are Falling in Love" was released in February 2020. The song was used in the American reality television series, Love Island in September 2020.[9]