Jorja Smith has got it together just in time for EP headline

A headline slot at Electric Picnic is just another marker in the inexorable rise of Jorja Smith, writes Ed Power.

Jorja Smith was mildly surprised when hip-hop superstar Drake reached out and invited her to cameo on his 2017 album More Life. But she wasn’t fazed. The Mercury-nominated British r’n’b singer doesn’t do nerves. Success, disappointment — all of it she takes in her stride, with a shrug and a chin tilted forward.