Jemma Siles

Jemma Mary Siles (born 8 July 1997) is an Australian singer and songwriter. She won Australian Pop Songwriter of the Year in 2018 and 2019 and Australian Ballad Songwriter of the Year in 2020, which was awarded by APRA AMCOS. In 2017, Siles was featured on the Nervo and Wolfpack track, "Like Air", which has over 3.5 million streams on Spotify. Siles was also a finalist in the Vanda and Young songwriting competition and semi-finalist in the International songwriting competition in 2020.

Early life Siles was born in 1997 in Melbourne, Victoria. She has been singing since she was six years old and taught herself piano. She has been songwriting since she was 13. Siles attended a few performing arts schools and by the age of 8 she landed the title role in the musical Annie, singing hit songs "Tomorrow" as a solo artist and "I think i'm gonna like it here" alongside Australian-Italian soprano singer Giuseppina Grech at the National Theatre, Melbourne. She continued performing as a solo artist and alongside other artists in front of hundreds of people at festivals and competitions. Siles went on to audition for an elite performing arts company. Her attendance at Patrick Studios Australia allowed her to not only continue to perform in front of these large audiences but also train with professional performers from all over Australia who taught her skills including multiple dance styles, singing and acting.

She landed the role of Dance captain at her Performing Arts High School in 2015 after performing Lead in Godspell as Robin singing the hit song "day by day" in 2014. Siles later had difficult personal battles to overcome which caused her to put a pause on her performance career until late 2016 to early 2017.

Career Siles initially gained attention after posting a cover on Facebook of Anne-Marie and Clean Bandit's "Rockabye" in January 2017, which was reposted by the Facebook page Radio One Lebanon and reached over half a million views in just a few weeks. She later posted a multitude of videos and reached almost 200,000 views on her own post of "Symphony" by Zara Larsson and Clean Bandit. Siles then went onto work with DJs Olivia Nervo and Miriam Nervo on the track "Like Air", which was released in December 2017. "Like Air" reached over 1.8 million streams on Spotify alone by April 2018.

In May 2018, Siles released her debut single, "D.A.M.N.", which takes influence from Taylor Swift, Tove Lo and George Maple.

In late 2018 Siles supported Indiana Massara, Tayler Holder and Zach Clayton on their tour of Australia. They performed at 170 Russel in Melbourne, Royal on the Park Hotel in Brisbane and Astor Theatre in Perth.

Siles released her second single "Light Me Up"

Released: 28 November 2025 Label: Jemma Siles 18

Awards and nominations Australian Songwriter of the Year Award

International Songwriting Competition The International Songwriting Competition (ISC) is an annual song contest for both aspiring and established songwriters. The judging panel is made up of musicians, songwriters and industry experts, and songs are judged on creativity, originality, lyrics, melody, arrangement and overall likeability YearTitleArtistAwardResultWriter/(s)Producer/(s)Release date2020"Merlot"Jemma SilesPop/Top 40 Jemma Siles & Cam NacsonCam Nacson

Vanda and Young Songwriting Competition The Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition is an annual competition that "acknowledges great songwriting whilst supporting and raising money for Nordoff-Robbins" and is coordinated by Albert Music and APRA AMCOS. YearTitleArtistAwardResultWriter/(s)Producer/(s)Release date2020"Merlot"Jemma SilesTop 40 Jemma Siles & Cam NacsonCam Nacson

Personal awards

APRA AMCOS Professional Development Award