Janie Price aka “BIRD” is an award winning half English, half Irish singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Based in London UK and Tuscany Italy, Janie started her classical music training on cello aged 6 and learnt drums from age 11. The unlikely pairing, born from a love of Jaqueline Du Pre and John Bonham saw her play in youth orchestras and rock bands.
At 18 she started her professional career as a session musician which has seen her play for the likes of Emeli Sande, Roachford and Just Jack to name a few. As a songwriter she’s written numerous hits including no 1’s in Belgium with Hooverphonic including singing and co-writing their hit “I Like The Way I Dance” and “In Wonderland” and single “Queen of Pearls” for Swedish country stars “The Tennessee Tears” as well as the English version of San Remo winning hit “Capolavoro” for platinum selling Italian band “Il Volo”. She’s written with many of the industry’s best loved musicians including Andy Dunlop (Travis), James Dean Bradfield (Manic Street Preachers), Shelly Poole (Alisha’s Attic), Charlie Sexton (Bob Dylan). Recent 2026 writing credits include for Aqua Riyaz and Stan Van Samang.
As an artist and under the moniker Bird, Janie has in 2026 released the album Held Here Together as well as a series of singles and eps. And played live in the US (including SXSW), with Ward Thomas on the UK tour, and upcoming with Ron Pope across Europe.
The forthcoming album “Welcome To The Show” has been co-written with talents including Grammy winner John Paul White (The Civil Wars) and Hal Lindes (Dire Straits) produced by Mike Hedges (Travis, The Cure).
Janie runs non profit song writing camps at her studio in Italy and speaks Italian. She’s a voting member of The Ivors, PRS, Musician’s Union. ALCS, Americana Association (USA), Folk Alliance (USA) AWFC (Alliance for Women Film Composers) and WSA (World Soundtrack Awards.
As a film maker, Janie’s first short film for which she wrote the script, music and co-produced, has won 9 festival awards including the Global Music Silver Medal Award and the Performance/Aviva Short Film Best Drama Award. Four singles were released from this project which garnered support from radio including BBC Radio 2, BBC 5Live, BBC Wales, BBC Oxfordshire (track of the week), BBC Ulster and Belgian national stations Radio 2 (12 weeks in playlist) and RTBF Jam (12 weeks playlisted).
She also completed her second short film, a documentary based on the story that made the lyrics of the single track “Roy”, the tale of two of rock and roll’s greatest legends, a dead body, a band of thieves and one girl’s search for the truth…
