ABOUT JAMIE DROO
Singer. Entertainer. Author. Voice Artist. Storyteller. Creator.

My name is Jamie Droo, and if there has been one constant throughout my life, it has probably been this: I like creating things.Songs. Characters. Stories. Performances. Books. Ideas. Graphics. Voices. Entire fictional worlds.I’ve never been particularly good at staying inside one box.My working life has taken me from the clubs of Nottingham to the British Army, from cruise ships travelling around the world to more than two decades entertaining audiences in Tenerife.

Along the way I’ve worked as a musician, soldier, singer, comedy entertainer, radio presenter, voice artist, audiobook narrator, columnist and, more recently, published author.On the surface, some of those things might appear completely unrelated
To me, they aren’t.Every one of them has given me experiences, characters, stories, skills and perspectives that eventually find their way into something I create.
It started with music.
Long before I ever imagined writing novels, I was performing.At just sixteen years old I was already working professionally as a drummer in a Working Men’s Club in Nottingham. It was an unusual education for a teenager, but a brilliant one.

Those clubs taught me something that has stayed with me throughout my career: an audience will very quickly tell you whether something works.You learn timing. You learn to listen. You learn how to read a room. You learn that confidence matters, but so does preparation. And you discover that entertainment isn’t really about the person standing on the stage.It’s about the people watching.

That fascination with performance would eventually become a huge part of my life, although there was another chapter waiting first. From the stage to the Army at eighteen, I joined the British Army.
I served for just under nine years in the Royal Logistic Corps as a Vehicle Specialist, working with military vehicles and equipment in an environment where responsibility, self-reliance and attention to detail weren’t optional extras.
The Army gave me a very different education.It taught me discipline. Adaptability. Problem-solving. How to work as part of a team and, when necessary, how to make decisions for myself.
It also introduced me to people from every conceivable background and placed me in situations that were a very long way from the Nottingham clubs where I had started performing.

At the time, I had no idea that decades later some of those experiences would become valuable raw material for fiction. But life has a habit of storing things away.

Life at sea after leaving the Army.
Music came calling again.In 1997 I began working professionally as a cruise ship singer, performing aboard Thomson’s SS Emerald and later the Airtours ships MS Carousel, MS Sundream, MS Sunbird and MS Seawing.

Cruise ships were another world entirely.Different audiences every week. Different nationalities. Different countries. Long contracts, close communities and the strange experience of living and working in what was effectively a floating town.For a performer, it was invaluable.
You had to become adaptable very quickly.
What worked brilliantly with one audience might fall completely flat with the next. You learned how to communicate with people, how to recover when things went wrong and how to walk onto a stage night after night and make the performance feel as though it were the first time you had ever done it.Those years also confirmed something I already suspected. Entertainment wasn’t simply something I did.It was part of who I was.

Tenerife In 2000.

I made the decision that would shape the next major part of my life.I moved permanently to Tenerife.
What began as another chapter in entertainment became home.
Over the years I have worked across the island as a vocalist and comedy entertainer, performing thousands of live shows for audiences from around the world.

Tenerife has given me an extraordinary life.

Live entertainment teaches you things no classroom ever could. It teaches you instinct. Improvisation. Timing. Resilience. Psychology. Communication. And perhaps most importantly, it teaches you not to take yourself too seriously.
When you spend years standing in front of live audiences, you become very comfortable with the fact that occasionally things will go spectacularly wrong.
The trick is learning how to turn that into part of the show.

Alongside performing, I have also worked in radio, voice-over and narration, recorded audiobooks and written as a columnist. They all involve the same basic instrument—the human voice—but each requires a completely different way of using it. And I find that fascinating.

Then came the books.

For years, ideas had been accumulating somewhere in the background.Characters. Situations. Experiences. Conversations. Places I had visited. People I had met.

In 2023, I finally began turning some of those ideas into books.
What started as an experiment quickly became something considerably larger.
I discovered that writing gave me another kind of stage.Instead of performing a story for an hour, I could build an entire world and invite somebody to live inside it for several days.

That idea became The JD Files, my espionage thriller series featuring former soldier John “JD” Dunn.
The first novel, The Disavowed, was published in June 2026.
Seeing a book I had created become a real, physical object was an extraordinary moment. But what surprised me most was how quickly one book became something bigger.
The story expanded. Characters developed.
A mythology began forming.
The second novel, The Black Ledger, followed, taking the series into a much larger world of hidden intelligence networks, erased operatives, international conspiracies and secrets that were never meant to survive.

Then came The Architect, continuing the story and expanding the universe still further.What began as “I wonder if I could write a book?” had become a genuine series.
And I’m nowhere near finished.

Creating worlds.

One of the things I have discovered about myself is that I have a particular fascination with original intellectual property.I love creating something that did not exist yesterday. A character. A fictional organisation. A book series.
A song. A concept. A visual identity. A piece of technology. A story that might eventually lead to another story.

I’m fascinated by the process of taking a blank page—or an empty screen—and gradually building something with its own identity.
That is probably why my creative interests continually overlap. Writing influences music. Music influences storytelling. My military experiences influence fiction.Live entertainment influences dialogue and character.Voice work influences how I hear a scene when I’m writing it.

Technology gives me new ways of presenting all of those things. I’ve always been largely self-taught. If something interests me, my instinct is usually to find out how it works and then start experimenting with it.

Sometimes that becomes a hobby. Sometimes it becomes a business. Occasionally it becomes an obsession.

Looking backwards to create something new

Not everything I create begins with me. One of the projects closest to my heart began with something my late father, Graham Drew, left behind.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he wrote original song lyrics that remained largely unheard for decades.Years later, I began revisiting those words and reimagining them as new songs—giving them fresh musical life while preserving the heart of what he originally wrote.
There is something very special about creating across generations.
He wrote the words. Decades passed. And now I get to help those words become music. It is part creative project, part family history and part tribute.

Reinvention.

Looking back, my life appears to contain several completely different careers. Musician. Soldier. Cruise ship singer. Entertainer. Broadcaster. Narrator. Writer. Author. Creator. But I don’t really see them as separate lives. They are chapters of the same one.
The Army taught me discipline.
Entertainment taught me communication.
Music taught me timing.
Writing taught me patience.
Technology taught me that being self-taught is not a disadvantage if you remain curious enough.
And life itself taught me that starting again is sometimes the beginning of the most interesting part.

I’m naturally curious, independent and probably a little obsessive when something captures my imagination. I care about detail. I like solving problems. I enjoy learning skills simply because I want to know whether I can learn them.

Most of all, I like making things. I’m far more interested in asking “What could this become?” than accepting what something already is.That philosophy now sits behind virtually everything I create.

I'm still creating.today,

Tenerife remains home and live entertainment remains a huge part of my life.
But alongside the stages, microphones and audiences, there are now manuscripts, characters, fictional intelligence networks, original music, voice projects, digital experiments and several ideas that haven’t quite decided what they want to become yet.

There will be more books.

There will be more music.

There will undoubtedly be projects I haven’t even thought of yet.

Because after all these years, the thing that still excites me most is remarkably simple:

Starting with nothing and creating something that wasn’t there before.

Welcome to my world.

Jamie Droo.