music moves me.
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'With One Breath' on The Real World (cut n paste)
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A bio about me, Jenni.
I am a Los Angeles native (yes, really ... one of the few).
I found my way to the piano sometime before the age of three and
just as I believe that although we choose how we walk
our paths, we don’t choose our fates ... I believe
that somewhere it is already written.
Since my earliest memories music has been my voice.
What I know about myself is that I observe the human
condition and capture feeling through song and melody.
I love people in all their greatness and with all
their flaws.
Growing, learning, teaching, and just being ... just
being here in the moment , this moment right now is
what I love putting into a song... and songs are where
I feel safest to express and feel feelings.
How amazing it is to sing in a room of people and open
ourselves to the feelings a song can convey ... the
meaning to each listener is what intrigues me the most...
the interpritations , the reflections , the mystery...
To know within the audience wether it be large or
small, that people see in the stories their own life
experiences or feel they are there with me in an
experience of my own is a moment to share like no
other and it is in that moment that the experience
becomes no longer just mine but "ours" .
For me this is the motivation to reach the soul
through music.
During my years at UCLA I began working
around the city teaching music in inner city schools,
tutoring students with special needs, working in
temples teaching Jewish music (that I am), and began
writing, recording, touring, and selling records of the
trunk of my car.
After I returned from my first trip backpacking throughout
Europe where I performed in Spain, I realize that I wanted
to make traveling around the world playing music and meeting
great people a part of my life forever.
Following the footsteps of the indie artists I
respect, I dove head first into the "do it yourself -
grass roots approach" simply because I believe in
creating opportunity even as opportunity finds you.
From simply following the heart, I have performed
in Italy, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, the UK,
India, Nepal, and through out the US.
The stories of how the occurrences in my life
happened or how I met most of the people I have met
are always long yet funny happen-stances to share, like typing
producers in LA in google which let to writing music and working with
some amazing people, putting together and touring benefit concerts
to fund raise for early childhood music education which let to
performing with wonderful women like Regina Spektor,
Sara Bareilles, and Kaki King - and just recently the opportunity to
support Loudon Wainwright III.
Or who would of guessed that climbing up a fire escape
in Austin, TX during SXSW 05 and throwing my record
into the local radio station window would of actually
worked ?
Throughout all of these journeys I have met and
worked with so many wonderful people - some who have
grown to be my dear friends, as others have extended
their selves to be a part of the musical growth and
development in my career. Jimmy Paxson , Ben Peeler,
Rich Mangicaro , Niko Bolas, George Massenburg, Erich Gobel,
StaciSlater, Matt Messer, Brenden Okrent, Seth Saltzman,
Marshall Altman, Steve Greenberg, Matt Messer, David
Byrnes, Nathaniel Kunkel, Russ Kunkel, Viktor Krauss,
Matt Rollings, Dean Parks, John Popper, B.F. and the
other names to be added, and your name when I meet
you....THANK YOU for your continued support and
guidance
This process of growing and finding my voice, the
continuous journey of living, loving and overcoming
fears, inspires me to choose to find and embrace the
ever so slight openings that occur amidst the chaos
letting new journeys begin. the fantastic whirlwind of
I do’s, I’m not sure's, I don’t have any idea, and I
will anyway give me freedom of the mind, to be out of
the mind. I find and each day reminds me that the
truth is found through love and the heart ...
So I sing ... Thank you for listening
CDS AVAILABLE JUST CLICK TO BUY!!
PIECES
27 MINUTES IN BOLOGNA
THE CAT TOY SESSIONS
A STROLL IN THE PARK (piano only)
