Andy Jordan (television personality)

Andrew Mark “Andy” Jordan is an English actor and singer-songwriter. Born in London, Andy rose to fame after joining E4’s BAFTA award-winning television programme, Made in Chelsea in its fourth series.^[1] Jordan later left the show in 2015 in order to focus on his music career,^[2] and is due to release new music in 2016.

Early life

Born in 1990, Jordan was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford, and proceeded to study Geography at The University of Leeds. Andy learned to surf at the age of 15, after going on holidays to Cornwall with his best friend.^[3]

Made in Chelsea

Jordan first joined the cast of the TV show Made in Chelsea in 2012. He went on to appear in 66 episodes before leaving the show three years later.^[4]

Music

On 21 October 2013, Jordan released “Whole Lot of Water” on iTunes.^[5] The song reached 71 in the UK Singles Chart.^[6] and as of September 2015, has over 160,000 views on YouTube.^[7] On 12 May 2014, Jordan released a music video for the song “Geography,”^[8] which was also the name of his debut EP, released the following month.^[9] The EP went on to sell over 10000 copies independently. After embarking on two sold-out nationwide tours^[10] that saw him play a total of 29 dates,^[11][12] Jordan is readying the release of his second EP, and has worked both in Nashville ^[13] and with British songwriters such as Sam McCarthy and KATYA.^[14]

In an interview with the Evening Standard, Jordan said “I take live inspiration from Michael Jackson and James Brown… Recording wise I love soul music.”^[15]

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