JP Cooper: ‘Success took a lot of hard work and stubbornness’

Success has been a long time coming for JP Cooper and he’s grateful for the push he got along the way from Ed Sheeran, writes Ed Power.

IF HE’D known how long and exhausting a journey stretched ahead, JP Cooper wonders if he’d have set his sights on pop stardom in the first place.

“Had I’d realised when I was 15 what I do now I probably wouldn’t have even tried,” says the chart topper, who, at age 33, has become one of the year’s hottest new songwriting talents and will shortly play to a sold out Olympia in Dublin.