Former JLS star Oritse Williams has opened up about the potential of a JLS reunion in the future.
Talking to Free Radio, Oritse (now known as solo artist OWS) discussed the possibility of The X Factor boyband getting back together.
‘I always say, you never know what the future holds. Right now, everyoneās got their individual responsibilities and 4 different diaries. In the immediate future itās highly unlikely, but you never know. At the end of the day weāre all still cool. We still work with each other in different ways and in different capacities, on different projects. Nowās the time to let everyone breathe individually.’
During the interview he talked about his own solo project OWS explaining that he never intended to go solo. ‘I didnāt originally plan, or didnāt know that I was going to do music solo. After JLS split I went into the studio and I continued to make music, I just couldnāt stay away from being creative for too long. It was my producers that said to me, āpeople are gonna want to hear thisā and I said āI donāt want anyone to know itās meā! Naturally in the studio process, I came up with OWS, and if I put it out on SoundCloud under OWS, no-oneās going to know itās me!’
Oritse got some big name support when he debuted OWS on SoundCloud in the shape of Kanye West and Jay-Z. ‘When I put the record on SoundCloud, we got a message from Kanye Westās label āGood Musicā. They were like, we really love this, who are you, I wanna get in touch! They didnāt know I had any musical background at all. It was as if they were discovering a new artist for the first time. We thought they were lying, and that it wasnāt them, but it turned out it was them. Soon afterwards Kanyeās rapper Pusha T, who was on Justin Timberlakeās first single, got in touch, and they were like we wanna roll with you and collaborate with you. Soon after that it got through to Jay Zās peopleās ears, they leaked the record through Jay Zās website Life + Times, and itās been up up upwards from then!’
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