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Jennifer Vazquez is a woman of absolute power & charisma. She has a calm and alluring energy about her that draws you immediately into her musical "Web of Dreams". Her story telling songs bring you right into the arena of everyday life. She gives all of herself to you as a singer, songwriter, musician and performer. Jennifer, originally from The Bronx, moved out to LA about five years ago to persue her dream and life passion building a reputation throughout the Los Angeles music scene as one of the hardest working and most prolific singer/songwriters in her community. Influenced by artists like Joni Mitchell, Billy Joel, Tracy Chapman, Natalie Merchant and U2, Jennifer’s main purpose here on Earth is simple, yet quite powerful. As Jennifer says, “My purpose & plan here is to take full responsibility for my life using 100% of my musical skills, my creative self and my spunkiness with charismatic ease, confidence and commitment creating a life I love, one rich in happiness, love & money that will touch, move & inspire others to do the same with their gifts and talents, allowing them to move towards a fully self expressed life in a gentle, patient & forgiving manner.” What people find most appealing about Jennifer is her drive, patience & "will to make it" attitude. To Jennifer, anything is possible as long as you believe it and can envision it. Her nickname should be "Miss Unstoppable". Her music fills your heart with peace & love while filling your mind with thought. She has the kind of voice that is crystal clear with a purity that is rarely heard. While she still resides in LA, you'd never know it lately from the way she flies all over the place like a little butterfly spreading her energy around & sharing her music & her voice with as many people as she can. Some of Jennifer’s accomplishments include her second studio album, “Bend”, being nominated for Independent Triple A Album of The Year by the Los Angeles Music Awards. She has been a constant in the music scene over the past years with her seven ASCAPLU$ awards, recognizing her as an active and promising young songwriter, in her being chosen Hot 100 Unsigned Artist four years in a row at Music connection magazine, as well as in her receiving a nod from Billboard Songwriting Contest a few years back for the songs "Bend", "Nothing Without You", "I'm No Saint" and "He's Like Strawberry Milk". Presently, Jennifer has recorded two full band albums: “Bend” (2004) & “Another Day in the Dark”(2000) and two acoustic projects called “Just Me and My Taylor” & “Silenced” (2002-2003). She’s made three music videos for her songs, “Running Out Of Time”(2002), “I'm No Saint” (2003-2004) and her latest one, “Nothing Without You” (2006). She’s been seen on Arizona Midday & Laff it Off With Grace, and heard on “Planet Music” and “Lady J Live” as well as been seen and heard on many other shows, podcasts & indie radio stations over this past year. Jennifer is so excited to be releasing her New Single, “Lone Pine” (10/07) for Digital Download Only. This New Single was produced by Larry Marciano (www.myspace.com/larrymarcianomusic), Co-Produced by me, mixed by David Peters (http://www.myspace.com/davidpeters) & mastered by Don Grossinger (http://www.dongrossinger.com) Jennifer came out with her first full length studio album, “Another Day in The Dark”, back in 2000. In 2002, she chose to take a trip to LA and was planning on staying for six months to sell the remainder of her debut album that she made back in NY (about 600 or so copies remained from her first run) on the streets of Santa Monica on Third Street Promenade. She was a street performer in every way. Five days a week singing her little heart out on The 3rd Street Promenade. “I can’t even begin to share with you all the stories that have come from that time in my life. Many good ones, some very sad ones and a few very very disturbing ones. But ya take the good with the bad and mix it together and what ya end up with is some really great songs.” After Jennifer was almost done with selling her very first album, it wasn’t time for her to go back to NY yet and people were asking her if she had any acoustic albums. She immediately asked a good friend of hers, David Lane, who she’d met through very funny circumstances, that’s another story in itself, for a favor. A few weeks later, Jennifer started recording two separate acoustic projects containing a bunch of her songs she’d been wanting to record . “Ya gotta give people what they want, so I asked David if he could record me live and just mix it down onto two separate cd’s. Nothing fancy, I just wanted to capture the song in it’s essence & purity and keep it authentic. And so, about two months later, I came out with two acoustic cd’s “Just Me & My Taylor” and “Silenced”. I sold out of those pretty quickly doing small runs and reordering more as I needed them and then it was time. I was ready to go back to NY and call it a great six month’s experience when something happened that would change me forever.” A week before Jen was planning on returning to her small two bedroom in Queens that she’d left to her roommate until her return, she got a phone call from Sara, her roommate, saying the entire house was on fire along with the rest of three homes right next store. It must have been an electrical fire or something to that effect. “Sara was hysterical, I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. What the hell was I suppose to do 3000 miles away. I just thought to myself, “Ok, just stay calm and get back to NY and deal with it all when I get there.” I booked a flight for as soon as I could two days later. I was so numb. I didn’t know what to expect when I got there. I just stayed focused and as calm as I could.” “I got home to NY to find nothing remaining in my burned down little Astoria apartment. Everything was either destroyed by the fire or from water damage from them putting out the fire. The roof was on the floor of the entire living room as I walked knee deep in it. I remember walking through the house, we weren’t suppose to even go in there as Sara told me, but I had to. I looked around to take it all in and wondered if there was anything, anything that could be saved. I had aksed my mom to meet me at the apartment with cleaning supplies just in case we could save things and maybe wipe them off and sell them for a $1 or $2 so I could make something, anything to have for myself to get by. I mad a few bucks as I wiped away and cleaned off stuff like a mirror or water damaged table and chairs. I did what I could, but it was all gone. All gone, until I walked into my room and saw that the cabinet that was built into the wall way above where my computer & desk had been was safe. The fire didn’t get to that, nor did that cabinet experience any water damage. This little cabinet above the desk was untouched. Everything else destroyed but this cabinet. And that’s when it happened. Do you know what was in that cabinet? Everything that mattered to me. My old photos from way back, my mom’s Wedding Book that she had given to me years after my parents split up when I was a young kid, the master tapes to my album, "Another Day In The Dark” and everything else that mattered to me from long ago. The memories were all saved. What a feeling, I lost everything, I was about to start from scratch but the truth was, I had just gained a brand new life and whole new way of seeing it. I helped Sara find a place over the next few days, got business in order saw whatever family I could and then got back on a plane and made the choice to come back to LA and start my new life there. And I did and here I am now.” Just when you think it's over, that's when it's just about to begin.... |
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