Jade Amelia Thirlwall (born 26 December 1992) is an English singer-songwriter. She rose to prominence in the 2010s as a member of Little Mix, one of the world's best-selling girl groups. With Little Mix, she released seven studio albums and achieved five number-one singles on the UK Singles Chart.
In addition to her solo work, Thirlwall signed a songwriter's publishing deal in 2019 with Sony/ATV Music, and shares songwriting credits for Little Mix, Twice, Billy Porter, Britney Spears, Iggy Azalea, and Nayeon. Aside from music and songwriting she is an ambassador for Stonewall, and noted for her political reviews and social activism, advocating for LGBTQ+ rights, ban against transgender conversion therapy in the UK, Black Lives Matter and her involvement with charity work which earned her the Gay Times Honour for Allyship in 2021. In 2022, she signed a solo record deal with RCA Records.
Jade Amelia Thirlwall was born on 26 December 1992 and raised in the Laygate area of South Shields, Tyne and Wear, north-east of England, to parents Norma Badwi and James Thirlwall and has an older brother named Karl. She has Egyptian and Yemeni descent from her mother's side and English descent from her father's side. Thirlwall's grandfather Mohammed Ahmed Saleh Badwi moved to South Shields from Yemen in 1943, and worked as a firefighter in the merchant navy, and as a laborer for the docks. It was in South Shields that he met his wife Amelia, whose father was from Egypt.

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