2½Years old
Her first singing lesson
Two and a half years old, and she has not stopped since.
From Donegal, Ireland
Irish Soprano · Opera · Musicals · Classical Crossover
She won her first singing competition the week she turned three. At ten she won Ireland's Junior Eurovision Song Contest, the youngest winner in its history, and sang for Ireland to a full house in Nice.
The story so far
Jessica took her first singing lesson at two and a half. Everything below happened before most singers have finished school.
2½Years old
Two and a half years old, and she has not stopped since.
3Years old
She entered the age six and under category and won it, beating children twice her age.
5Years old
She sang Patsy Cline solo on Donncha's Two Talented. That was the moment she decided what she was going to do with her life.
10Years old
Weeks of live television on TG4, round after round, thousands of hopefuls. She won, and became the youngest winner in the contest's history.
Youngest winner ever
10Years old
She sang at the Palais Nikaïa to a full stadium and a television audience of millions, in a song written for her in Irish.
The song was released on every major platform, and she made her own music video for it.
NowAnd still climbing
Jessica is working through her grades in piano and classical singing, performing with a cabaret team, and writing her own material.
She would like to sing on the biggest stages in the world. On current evidence, that is not an unreasonable plan.
Voice coaching by Benny Vocal Coach.
I dream of performing on huge stages, worldwide, sharing my passion for music.Jessica McKean
Hear her sing
Twenty five seconds, unedited. This is the instrument a promoter is booking.
Recognition
Jessica competes as comfortably in front of a television audience as she does in front of an examination panel. Both have said the same thing.
Junior Eurovision · TG4
Selected round by round across weeks of live television, ahead of thousands of entrants, at ten years old.
2025 · Royal Irish Academy of Music
Awarded for her performance of Nel cor più non mi sento, with the highest grade in her classical singing examination.
Nice, France
A full stadium and a broadcast audience of millions, singing a song written for her in Irish.
What she sings
Jessica moves between the opera house, the musical stage and the concert hall without changing singer. The training is classical. The reach is not.
Five languages
Where she has sung, and with whom
Three years with a cabaret team at Harvey's Point and other hotels, alongside some of the best known names in Irish music. Hundreds of television, radio and magazine appearances, including singing while accompanying herself at the piano on TG4.
Away from the microphone
Jessica writes her own songs, paints, draws, and plays badminton. She is a genuinely serious nail artist. The same eye that finds a phrase in a score finds it everywhere else too.
Bookings and press
Concerts, galas, festivals, corporate events, television and radio. Jessica performs solo programmes and shared bills, with piano, backing track or full orchestra.
All enquiries are handled by Jessica's family management team.