SUAVE Jazz svengali Jamie Cullum is storming up the US charts with his latest album Twentysomething.

The 24-year-old supremo from Hullavington has sold more than a million records in the UK since October and has entered the US billboard contemporary jazz charts at number two just three weeks after release.

It has been a remarkable year for the singer and pianist, who is currently on a US tour, after he was plucked from obscurity by music giants Universal last May in a £1m deal, a record for a British jazz artist.

TV chatshow king Michael Parkinson championed the youngster's music from the start and Jamie made some of his first TV performances on his BBC show, Parkinson.

But despite the deal and chart success in an interview with the magazine OK he said he was still poor.

"The million pounds doesn't come to me. It's what they spend on me to market me. I made about £20,000. After paying off my student loan which was £12,000, and the payment on my car and money I owed my dad I had enough money to buy myself an iPod and an acoustic guitar. So now I am f***ing skint again," he said.

Tonight he is playing on the David Letterman Show, one of America's highest rating chat shows and will perform with greats such as Steve Wonder and Al Green at the songwriter's hall of fame awards in New York.