Jess Robinson is a multi-award-winning event host, TEDx speaker, author, classically trained singer and one of the UK’s leading vocal impressionists.
Her unusual breadth is a genuine advantage for event organisers. Jess can speak, host, facilitate and, when the brief calls for it, genuinely blow the roof off vocally. Rather than feeling like separate strands, those skills come from more than twenty years of learning how to read a room, connect quickly with an audience and communicate with confidence, warmth and humour.
Jess is a regular on BBC Radio 4’s Dead Ringers and has appeared on Spitting Image and Channel 4’s The Last Leg. She reached the live semi-finals of Britain’s Got Talent and has performed at venues including the London Palladium and Royal Albert Hall. Her critically acclaimed UK tour of Elton Reimagined earned TWENTY four- and five-star reviews, further establishing her as an exceptional live vocalist and entertainer. Her book, Life is Rosi: Grandma, Me and Our Diaries at 23, is published by HarperCollins.
Her TEDx talk, Find Your Voice: Borrow, Repeat, Become™, grew directly from her extraordinary career spent professionally becoming other people. Jess discovered that imitation could be a route not away from authenticity, but towards it.
Her practical Borrow, Repeat, Become™ method shows people how to identify a quality they admire in someone else, borrow a cue that helps them access it, and practise it until confidence, authority or courage becomes more readily available as their own.
For event organisers, Jess can deliver the keynote or interactive masterclass as a standalone experience, or combine speaking with conference hosting, facilitation, live interviewing and distinctive musical entertainment. The result is a rare combination of substance and serious entertainment, delivered by somebody who knows how to hold a room.
TESTIMONIALS
Her book
It takes the diaries of her grandmother, Rosi, at the age of 23 when she was escaping Nazi Germany and contrasts them with Jess's own diaries at that age as a millennial woman in the early 00s.
'This is a unique juxtaposition of the shatteringly honest diaries of two Jewish girls fighting to survive ― Grandma Rosi in the Holocaust and two generations later Jess in today's grubby showbiz world. It appalled, uplifted and delighted me. I wish I’d written it.' Miriam Margolyes.
TESTIMONIALS
“It’s like a mega-concert with all your favourite stars” – ITV
“A feel-good celebratory show” – Observer
“A star is born” – Metro
“Mind-blowing” – Scottish Sun
“Slick impressions, super-powered ballads” – Guardian
“By some way the best, most exciting impressionist we have” – Rory Bremner