About Jean

I've been singing for as long as I can remember. I came from a very musical family – mother, father, aunts, uncles, the lot of them. We had to learn to harmonize as small children, just to fit in! Though I studied piano from a very early age, my voice has always been my instrument. I started performing when I was quite young – on the nationally televised Bob Crosby Show at the age of 11 – then throughout my high school years and college. After college, where I majored in Speech and Drama, I settled in Chicago where I worked in recording studios doing work in television commercials, voice-overs, radio spots, and performing in live musical industrials, and the occasional cabaret. It is after I took a very long break from work, to raise my children, that I started writing songs.

I had returned to singing, was recording an album and found that, though I loved the standards that I had been exposed to all of my life, I wasn't able to fully express myself singing them.

I started out slowly, including only one of my own songs on that first CD. I've tried to learn as much as I can, and have recorded exclusively my own songs since. It's been very cathartic for me, as well as a little frightening in that I'm exposing my personal feelings for all to hear.

Jean released her first album – I'm Glad There Is You – in 1992. She wrote and produced Confessions of a Woman, released in 1996, Who Am I? in 1998, and What Am I Looking For? in 2001, while No Easy Way is her latest work in 2007. Jean has received significant airplay on major market stations throughout the Midwest.