Jay Kay quitting music

Jamiroquai frontman Jay Kay is quitting music for a year, in a bid to return to his creative peak.

Jamiroquai frontman Jay Kay is quitting music for a year, in a bid to return to his creative peak.

The Virtual Insanity star feels Jamiroquai's Greatest Hits album has given him a sense of closure and he wants to take a break before returning back to the basics he mastered with the group's early material.

He says: "On the first album we had flugelhorn solos. I know we probably overdid it, but it was fun, it was good, it was creative. I want to get back to making music like that.

"I like the sense of closure that the greatest hits album has to it. I've closed this chapter of my career at the right time and it's great.

"I'm ready to move on and see what comes next - a year off, that's the plan."

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