Jesse Monroe, of UK & Brazilian descent, grew up around Portobello Road, West London and started writing her own material in 2004 during a six-month visit to Brazil. This led on to working with various established writers including Rob Manzoli (who’s produced a track on the new Outkast album, worked with George Clinton and wrote the Right Said Fred hits Too Sexy & Deeply Dippy). Last year Jesse released her self-penned Please
Don’t Cry as a solo artist on the Your Mama label before hooking up with Rob B in college. The duo spent time playing Drum & Bass on a 5K rig set up in Jesse’s basement whilst driving around to warehouse parties in a convoy. Before long they were in the studio blending D&B, Breaks & Tech House vibes into what has now become the Blake & Monroe sound.

Rob B is the son of a rock drummer (who played African drums alongside Carl Cox & Digweed), and following his father’s passion for music started playing with tape machines at 10 and learning guitar by 12. Then at 16 he was performing at venues throughout the UK in various bands, before securing a placement at the legendary Sarm
Studios where he gained a wealth of experience working alongside Trevor Horn.

As well as spinning records at last years Notting Hill Carnival alongside Kano, Peaches, Big Ted & Gemma Fox, Rob is now working with Jesse on future material for their Blake & Monroe project and releasing tracks independently on his own imprint U-Neck Records, whilst gaining much respect from musicians like The Utah Saints, Deekline Freq Nasty, Plump DJs, Loose Cannons and Aquasky to name a few.