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— A Brief Introduction

Phil Dewhurst, better known by his middle name, Jinder, is a writer, singer and recording artist based on the south coast of the UK.

After a period spent working with bands including UK chart act `Candlefire, Jinder’s career began in earnest with the release of debut solo album ‘Willow Park’ in 2005, which attracted favourable reviews and national airplay courtest of `Zane Lowe’s show on BBC Radio 1.

Three years and several solo releases later, Jinder formed vocal harmony trio The Mercurymen, alongside bandmates Simon Johnson and Gavin Wyatt, who were swiftly signed by Sony BMG, releasing the album ‘`Postcards From Valonia’ at the end of 2008.

Returning to solo work in 2009, Jinder started his own label, Din Of Ecstasy, in order to release his own work and that of other artists with a stylistic kinship.

After four years of working with Universal Records as a staff songwriter, creating songs for and with artists including Aled Jones, Lotte Mullan, Nick Knowles, Henry Priestman and Elysium III, in 2012 Jinder released his most successful solo record to date, ‘Crumbs of Comfort’, via Universal Records subsidiary Mighty Village. A successful European tour with Port Isaac’s Fishermen’s Friends followed, with Jinder both joining the band as touring guitarist and opening act.

in 2015, Jinder released ‘Traditional Dark’, his first non-major-label release since 2007. The album, recorded to tape in an abandoned `Westcountry cottage, was an atmospheric, lo-fi treatise on loss and grief, and received extensive critical acclaim.

In 2019, Jinder re-recorded his song ‘Keep Me In Your `Heart’, originally featured on 2012’s ‘Crumbs of Comfort’ LP, with producer `The Atlas, for inclusion in the international hit movie ‘Fishermen’s Friends’. Owing to the film’s success in all sixty seven countries of release, the new recording of ‘Keep Me In Your `Heart’ went to No.1 in the download charts of eleven countries, simultaneously sending ‘Crumbs of Comfort’ to the top of the album charts in three of those countries.

Later that year, Jinder followed up the international success of ‘Keep Me In Your Heart’ with another two hit singles, ‘Overthinkers Anonymous’ and ‘The Train to the Sky’, before releasing his eleventh album, ‘The Silver Age’, in early 2020.

Despite unanimous critical acclaim for ‘The Silver Age’, the Covid19 pandemic necessitated the cancellation of a seventy date world tour in support of the album’s release, and vital momentum for the album’s promotion was lost, as it was for so many artists.

Jinder would later return to the studio and release two more albums (2020’s ‘Almanac for the Failing `Days’ and 2023’s ‘Codetta’) as part of a trilogy that began with ‘The Silver Age’.

Following an enforced layoff from music after being seriously injured in a motorcycle accident, Jinder returned in early 2026 with visceral singles ‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’ and ‘King of Burden’, and announced a forthcoming fourteenth album, ‘A Million Points of `Light’, set for release in May 2026.

The album traces a narrative arc of devastation, healing and redemption, following Jinder’s life changing injuries and the end of his marriage, which followed in quick succession in 2025, and promises to be his most powerful, raw and emotionally impactive work to date.

Alongside his work in music, Jinder is also an author and poet. Novel ‘The Sea of Trees’ and poetry anthology ‘Hymns of Transfiguration:One `Hundred Days of Healing’ are both set for release in 2026.