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Jersey Budd

British singer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ6184771
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Jersey Budd is an English singer-songwriter from Leicester, England. He has also recently become a star striker for St Patrick's AFC who play in the Leicester District League

Music career

He released his first album Wonderlands in 2009, which included the singles "She Came Back", featuring backing vocals by Kasabian's Tom Meighan, and "Bright Soul". In 2010 he released Louis Armstrong's "When You're Smiling" with Leicester City F.C., in celebration of the club's success in reaching the Championship Play-offs and he sang the song on the pitch before the first leg against Cardiff City at the Walkers Stadium. He re-released the single in 2011 and appeared on ESPN's Talk of the Terrace in early September of that year.

Budd has supported many artists on tour such as Kasabian, The Rifles, The Enemy, James Morrison, Amy Macdonald and Turin Brakes. In 2012 and 2013 he released three five-track EPs on Smoky Carrot Records.

Discography

Studio albums

Wonderlands (2009)

The Gathering Dust (2017)

EPs

Heartbreaker EP (2012)

Down to the Wire (2013)

Time Stands Still (2013)

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The public source identifies “Jersey Budd” as british singer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jersey, Budd and British.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2010, 2011, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jersey, Budd and British providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6184771. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from Jersey Budd” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.