Jodie Abacus is a British musician from Lewisham in South East London. His musical styles include R&B, soul, electronic and funk.Jodie wrote I’ll Be That Friend in 2013 and uploaded it to his Soundcloud channel where it topped the Hyped Machine charts and amassed over 100,000 plays.He was subsequently signed to Household Records in early 2015. It was written while Jodie was in a self-proclaimed dark point in his life, having caught life-threatening pneumonia and breaking up with his long-term girlfriend at the same time