London born Jess Kinn’s love of music began at an early age, DJing 60s/70s vinyl across the UK from age of 15. She started her career in live music at 18 at The Leighton Pope Organisation (Michael Buble, Bryan Adams etc) before joining CODA (formerly Paradigm, now Wasserman) where she worked her way up from reception to agent over 9 years. She worked across acts including Shawn Mendes, Halsey, Alan Walker and Faithless before becoming an agent in her own right. In 2018 she was named as LIVE UK’s ‘Backstage Star’ and Music Week’s ‘Rising Star.’ In 2020 she headed up events for LIVENow working on live streams for The Pete Tong Heritage Orchestra, Gorillaz and the record breaking Dua Lipa Studio 2054 stream. In 2021 she went back into live music as the first agent hire at One Fiinix Live and in 2022 was nominated for Music Week’s ‘Live Music Agent of the year’. In 2023 One Fiinix Live won The Booking Agency of the year award at The Live Awards and recently Jess was also nominated for ‘Best Agent’ at the Young Music Boss Awards. Her roster includes acts such as Olly Alexander (Years & Years) Moonchild Sanelly, RØRY, The Aces, Beth McCarthy, Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler, Louis Culture, Swim School, Katie Tupper, JERUB and The Veronicas.
