Jay Kay

Jay Kay (born Jason Luís Cheetham; 30 December 1969) is an English singer-songwriter. He rose to international fame as a founding member of the jazz-funk band Jamiroquai.\n', '

Jay Kay was born in Stretford, Greater Manchester, on 30 December 1969. His mother, Karen Kay, is a former cabaret singer and television personality. His biological father is Luís Saraiva, a Portuguese former guitarist, whom he did not meet until 2001. Kay\'s identical twin, David, died some weeks after they were born. Kay said in a 2010 interview with The Daily Telegraph that his mother raised him largely alone, which gave him "an itinerant childhood; half of it living in rural Suffolk and rural Devon". A 1997 article in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph states that Kay "moved with his mother and step-father Mervyn Kay to Manchester as a youngster". He attended Oakham School in Rutland. At 15 years old, Kay was…