Jessica Hammond
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Jessica Hammond is a singer songwriter. Jessica is the winner of the 2010 Northern Ireland Belfast CityBeat
Belfast CityBeat
Belfast CityBeat is a two-time Arqiva 'Station Of The Year' and multi-Sony Award winning Northern Irish radio station. It broadcasts to Greater Belfast on 96.7 MHz FM and on DAB Digital Radio across all of Northern Ireland. From 5 April 2007, Citybeat became available on 102.5FM for North Belfast,...

 competition Young Star Search
Young Star Search
The Young Star Search is a kids' talent radio competition based in Northern Ireland and is the current holder of the New York Festival Gold Award for best global radio station promotion. It was also nominated two years running at the UK Arqiva Radio Awards...

. Before winning Young Star Search, Jessica Hammond has been a finalist on the Disney Channel UK talent search My Camp Rock
My Camp Rock
My Camp Rock is a singing competition based on the Disney Channel Original Movie, Camp Rock. Two series have been broadcast in the United Kingdom and two series in 2009 and 2010 in Sweden, Denmark and Norway as My Camp Rock Scandinavia...

in April 2009. She is from Belfast
Belfast
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, Northern Ireland
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, United Kingdom
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Jessica Hammond fought off competition from thousands of hopefuls to secure her place in the contest, along with 7 other acts. The show aims to find a young music star aged 8 to 16. She sang Here I Am from the Camp Rock soundtrack at the Camp Jam, Gary Lloyd, Zoe Tyler
Zoe Tyler
Zoë Tyler, is an English voice coach, cruise ship singer, performer and reality television show judge. She is also a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.-Early career:...

 and R&B star Craig David
Craig David
Craig Ashley David is an English singer and songwriter. He has released five studio albums: Born to Do It, Slicker Than Your Average, The Story Goes..., Trust Me, Signed Sealed Delivered and a Greatest Hits album...

 sat on the judging panel responsible for whittling the finalists down from eight to four, along with the head of Walt Disney Records
Walt Disney Records
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 in Europe
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, who released the winning track. The Final Jam aired on April 24, 2009.
Jessica Hammond has written songs, Try Again, No Doubt, My Boyfriend , Star and Cheater which is just about to received Radio play on Citybeat Radio.
YouTube
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She is currently studying at Ashfield Girls' School.

By age six she was singing, by age 10 Jessica had completed vocalist grades 1,2 and 3 with the British School of Music and by twelve she was playing the guitar. She began playing the saxophone and drums about a year ago "just for fun". She described her music style as rock-pop.
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