Jill Zimmerman

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Growing up, Jill Zimmerman spent a lot of time singing to her bedroom walls, her tape recorder, and her dog. She also spent a lot of time sitting on a piano bench full of 1970s songbooks. “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and “Rocky Mountain High” as interpreted by a ten-year-old-piano-lesson-dropout quickly became two of her dog’s favorite songs.
Eventually, Jill began writing her own songs on piano. Soon after that, she began studying guitar with a teacher who encouraged her to play what she liked and to perform for others. She had no problem with first part of his advice, but she had not exactly considered expanding her audience to include human beings - until one day in high school.
On a whim, a week after the entries were due, she and a friend signed up for the school’s talent show. Jill scrambled to finish a song in time. The result was “One Match,” which, despite a shaky and nervous performance, received a standing ovation. Inspired, Jill began to write more and more.
She stepped foot into a recording studio for the first time in the middle of 2007. She spent that summer recording eight songs with the help of friends and family. The final outcome was a little labor of love entitled “For You to Hear Me,” her first CD.
In the following months she met others in the Twin Cities music world, including producer/manager W. Zachary Taylor, Paul Anderson and the talented musicians who have collaborated with Jill in the studio as well as on stage.
Since then Jill has performed at various venues, such as the Acadia Café, Innuendo, Corner Coffee, McNally Smith’s “Takin’ it to the Streets”, Hamline University, the University of St. Thomas, the St. Paul Eagles Club, and Beaner's Central. Jill is currently celebrating her new full-length album, Earthbound, and continuing to perform around Minnesota.
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