Jessica Fogle has been writing songs since she was 3 years old, starting out with the hits "A Nickle and a Shank" (she doesn't know what that means) and "Let's Dance!". She later won statewide songwriting competitions in elementary school by writing themed songs about world peace and children governing. Now she writes thoughtful and/or quirky songs as a solo singer-songwriter, blending folk-rock-pop with jazzy/cabaret piano and experimental/absurdist/satiric/confessional lyrics...sort of like if Norah Jones ate Kurt Vonnegut and washed it down with some Tom Waits or Fiona Apple, and then, bloated, went swimming in a mellow moody film score. And dried off taking a walk on Sesame Street.
She also has an MFA in musical theatre writing, which infiltrates her style at times, and an obsession with Chopin and Beethoven, which was beaten into her fingers from an early age and at the conservatory where she was often expected to "TRANSPOSE!" To date, she has written over 12 albums, however you've never heard of most of them because they are kept secret in her personal vault (simply due to time and money, neither of which she has much of). Du Bist Einen Fogle!, her 2nd full album and first studio release, is currently in post-production and is due to release in May 2010. (*her first album, Melancholy Frog, can be listened to here at jessicafogle.com).
She is also a regular person, and lives in Chicago, buttering her bread as a piano teacher. Although she doesn't actually eat butter. But she has 35 students who don't know that. She is also living out her lifelong dream of having a soulmate named Ray, and they share a home w/ their cat Mushroom.