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Jessica Fogle is a Chicago-based songwriter/pianist/singer (in that order). You can find her playing her songs fairly regularly around Chicago, most frequently at Gallery Cabaret or The Orphanage. She has also been seen at Schubas, Uncommon Ground, the Grafton, Kitty Moon, Bill's Blues, Silvie's, Cat Mafia, Old Town School of Folk, and other cool-sounding places. Although she's been a songwriter/musician since she was 2 years old (via her 15-key plastic keyboard, featuring "Mary Had a Yittle Yam" and "Shaboopiedoo"), she only came out publicly as a performing songwriter a few years ago.
She's taken many different tangents before getting here--including a career in music directing for musical theatre in NYC and Chicago, studying classical piano, writing musicals (grad school-NYU), and composing for film*.
Armed with the influence of all these genres (plus heros like Joni Mitchell, Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann, etc), she now writes quirky and melancholy songs that blend a variety of styles and genres.
She has been known to describe her music as such: "blending folk-rock-pop with jazz/cabaret piano with experimental/absurdist/satiric/confessional lyric influences...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." Or something like that.
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*This tangent of years ago has led to involvement in an amazing film WERE THE WORLD MINE--the brainchild of Tom Gustafson and Cory Krueckeberg. After writing music for a song in their short film "Fairies" back in 2004, the film won awards and was encouraged to be made into a feature (movie-musical). It's a collaboration between myself, Shakespeare/Krueckeberg (lyrics), and genius-music-producer Tim Sandusky. The film toured through festivals starting in Spring 2008 and has won awards around the world, including Best Music at the Nashville Film Festival, and numerous Best Feature awards, from festival juries and audiences alike. It released theatrically in November 2008, and will be due out on DVD in June 2009. Check out the website http://www.weretheworldminefilm.com for more information or click my "store" link to buy the album.