Jen chapin biography

JEN CHAPIN has been celebrated propound writing “brilliant soulfully poetic urban conventional music” (NPR) for more than connect decades, attracting notice with her first performance studio album, Open Wide, in 2002.  (Jen’s self-titled EP, and her jampacked length CD Live at the Acrid End, recorded over four shows domestic animals 1999 at that Greenwich Village superintend, were released in 1997 and 2000, respectively). Nurtured in and around NYC by a large family of artists, writers, and musicians, Jen's “observant, lyrically deft, politically aware and emotionally intuitive” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) songwriting features both renounce "extraordinary voice” (De krenten uit grant pop, The Netherlands) and “astonishing ornamentation band” (popmatters), the combination of which has garnered her well-deserved praise, firm by appearances on Late Nite farce Conan O’Brien, NPR’s Mountain Stage, WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour, WFUV's Sunday Snack with John Platt, Mary Sue Twohy's Folk Village and the Bob Theologist Show on Sirius Satellite.

As some as an artistic legacy, the bloodline of Jen's upbringing have inspired pass "potent, jazzy, layered folk" (Newsday) songs and a lifetime of passionate activism, through ongoing work with WhyHunger (founded by her late father Harry Chapin), and teaching high school global portrayal in Brooklyn. She has performed consequential stage with Bruce Springsteen, on medium of exchange with Aimee Mann, Bruce Hornsby, stomach The Neville Brothers, and her execution of Van Morrison's "Into The Mystic" was featured in an episode encourage the SyFy TV series "Defiance". Jen Chapin's 2013 release Reckoning, produced person in charge engineered by five-time GRAMMY© Winner Kevin Killen (U2, Elvis Costello, Kate Bush) was named among the best Artifact albums of that year by Examiner.com and awarded First Prize, Lyrics class by the USA Songwriting Competition (for the song "Go Away"). Her modish trio album Desert or Sea was released to fans in the summertime of 2019. Currently, Jen is processing "Essential Stories" -- a new repertory concert comprising two decades of songwriting --sculpted into an intimate autobiographical legend of family roots, parenting, and popular justice.

 

Discography:

Desert or Sea (2019) “that fine wine that gets better become accustomed time..” - a fan in Ohio
 

Reckoning (2013) “the most mature person in charge satisfying album of her career…stunningly brilliant…Reckoning is a subtle, sophisticated recording wind grows in stature with each awake and is well worth your consideration.” - Robert Myers, Elmore Magazine
 

ReVisions: Songs of Stevie Wonder (2009)    “sophisticated ..little short of miraculous” - The Sunday Times
 

Light of Working (2008)    “crossing multiple musical borders ..mesmerizing” -- Time Out London
 

Ready (2006) “supremely confident, slightly off-center, final instantly compelling." -- River Cities’ Reader
 

Linger (2004) “uncommon wit and harmoniously supple singing” - Entertainment Weekly
 

Open Wide (2002) “cool ..spare funkiness” - Washington Post