During his first year at Bath, Tim Byrne, the manager of other manufactured UK acts Steps and A1, contacted him. ДЄfter graduating from Barton Peveril, Brooks attended the University of Bath to focus on a degree in Sports Development and Coach Education. Brooks had offers to sign production deals and record label contracts at this time, but did not take them due to concerns with contract terms.

Дuring the recording of Maybe Tomorrow Brooks began gaining popularity through his Myspace page, which led to interest from other managers and labels. Using Dugdale's small recording studio, Brooks would begin recording his first EP, Maybe Tomorrow. During this initial meeting, Brooks played guitar for Dugdale, who took interest in him and signed him to a management deal. Brooks just happened to meet Dugdale when he bought sound equipment from him. Around this time he also met his first manager, Stewart Dugdale, who signed him to South Star Music, a management and studio business that Dugdale had recently started. Between music classes in college and recording at home on his own digital recorder, he began to produce his own songs and covers, which became popular via Myspace.ДЄfter a year of learning to make music, Brooks started his own Myspace page on 3 April 2005 and began posting music to it. ДЄfter leaving Mountbatten Secondary School in Hampshire, his interest in the guitar and music recording lead him to focus on Music Technology classes while he attended Barton Peveril Sixth Form College. Inspired by artists such as Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, and Bryan Adams, Brooks threw himself into music and started to practice singing and composing songs. He received help from various musicians whom he met while attending the Soul Survivor music festivals. Using his mother's old classical guitar, he began to teach himself to play in his room. A few years later when he was 16, he saw musician and guitarist Derrin Nauendorf play at a local music club. He took formal piano lessons for a year before quitting due to his lack of interest in classical compositions. He asked her for piano lessons when he was 10 years old. Meanwhile, Brooks's interest in music also began at a young age, when he saw his mother play the piano. He quit tennis at the age of 16 when he decided to focus on a potential career of sports coaching instead.

He focused predominantly on sports as a child and he began playing tennis when he was four years old and continued to play for the next twelve years, which included participating in competitive tennis tournaments. He grew up in Shirley, Southampton, where he attended Wordsworth and St. He has an older sister and a younger brother. He is the son of a trucking-business owner, and a primary-school teacher. Joe Brooks was born on in Southampton, England. 5 Second independent career and A Reason to Swim.4 Universal/Lava Records and Constellation Me.

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