The British singer and podcast host wanted her new album to offer escapism. And then the pandemic hit. "If you're going to sit with me, you have to be a big girl," Jessie Ware says patiently as her young daughter crashes our Zoom interview just moments after it began.
Ware, beamed in from her light-filled home in London, takes a moment to park her toddler in front of the television before returning to the camera and curling up in her seat: “This is the weirdest promotion of a record.” Collisions of work and family aren’t so weird for the British singer-songwriter.
On her 2017 album, Glasshouse, she dug deep about new motherhood with achingly vulnerable ballads like “Thinking About You” and “Sam.” Later that year, she and her mother,