Home grown Hounslow talent Jay Sean has gone from singing near the Treaty Centre to becoming Britain’s biggest breakthrough artist in the US despite never having a UK hit.

Jay Sean, real name Kamaljit Jhooti, is number two on the US’ Hot 100 chart with his new single Down and is tipped to claim the top spot tomorrow after shooting to number one in radio and TV airplay charts.

Singer Jay, who has teamed up with pint-sized star rapper Lil Wayne on Down, is the UK's biggest breakthrough artist in the States this year.

But the R’n’B star has slammed the UK music scene claiming it took an upheaval across the pond for him to finally get recognised.

Speaking to a national newspaper the 28-year-old said: "In England the industry is set up more for straight-up pop, manufactured pretty girl bands and things like that - anything else is a niche.

"They [Americans] are not obsessed with your background like in England. They place less emphasis on those things - If people ask, I explain my background proudly, but ultimately I want to be about the music.

“It's been an amazing couple of months. When you have a hit song out here it's like a hurricane. It will be weird to come back - I've been in New York for nearly a year but I feel that I am in control of my career now."

After his US success radio stations in the UK have started to pick up on the Hounslow singer’s sounds and Down could be the track which gives the singer his UK chart debut.

The singer, who quit record label Virgin before signing to a US label, said: "I'm a very positive, optimistic person and thought let me write a song about the idea that if you've got someone special in your life then nothing else really matters, how you need to appreciate the little things.

"The title is a play on the word 'down'. That's why Lil Wayne says, 'Are you down like the economy'. It's a fun track.”

Down is taken from Jay’s forthcoming album All Or Nothing which will be released in the UK on November 23.

US critics hailed the R'n'B hit, featuring Grammy award-winning rapper Lil' Wayne, as one of the "anthems of the summer".