Jade Williams was born on 21 May 1988 in Sidcup, Greater London, and is professionally known as Whinnie Williams. She grew up in Broxbourne, working at a local pet shop every Sunday during her teenage years, and as she had not revealed her name to the other members of staff, she became known as Sunday Girl, which would later become her music alias. Having overcome stage fright through hypnosis, she joined many cover bands, including a ska band, a jazz band, and a trio who did covers of '40s blues standards with a ukulele and double bass. However, she soon became bored of singing covers and so took a gap year during her studies to travel and, more importantly, focus on her song-writing. While singing at a night club, she was discovered by a manager, and he helped direct her to work with other songwriters, which led to her eventual signing with Polydor Records and Universal's Geffen Records in late 2009. Her debut single as Sunday Girl was 'Four Floors' in March 2010, followed by 'Self Control' in July, and then she was offered a support slot on Ellie Goulding's tour during November. Her third single, 'Stop Hey', was officially released through iTunes by Polydor in February 2011, and in June she was featured on Martin Solveig's album 'Smash', performing 'Let's Not Play Games', which she co-wrote.
Her cover of 'Love U More', originally by Sunscreem, was promotionally released in October 2011, but its commercial release was delayed indefinitely, although that seemed insignificant when her big break came, with her cover of Pixies' 'Where Is My Mind?' being used for Thomson's 2011 holiday TV campaign, and the single's success helped her to be signed by Universal's Island Records in early 2012. In turn, this led to other TV ads, in particular for supermarket chain Aldi, with her cover of 'My Favourite Things' in 2015. In March 2012 she co-wrote the song 'Turn Up The Radio' for Madonna's twelfth studio album 'MDNA', and her song 'High & Low' was featured on the official motion picture soundtrack of 'StreetDance 2'. In February 2013 she announced the end of the Sunday Girl project, and released her first singles under the name Whinnie Williams, with both 'You Don't Love Me' and 'Break Hearts In Your Sleep' appearing in 2013. In 2018 she founded interiors brand Poodle & Blonde, and has been the host for BBC 3 show 'Flat Out Fabulous' since 2020, but with the end of the Sunday Girl project, the proposed Polydor album was shelved, so I've taken all her known recordings up to 2013 and added a few choice covers from Blur, Keisha, MGMT and Everything Everything, to add to the one from Pixies, and we end up with the album that could have appeared in 2012 if Sunday Girl had carried on.
Track listing
01 Stop Hey
02 Self Control
03 Four Floors
04 Human Love
05 Where Is My Mind
06 TiK ToK
07 Love U More
08 Tender
09 Time To Pretend
10 High & Low
11 Photoshop Handsome
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