Baby Jane Dexter

b. Garden Town, Long Island, NY, USA. Dexter used her stage name because her mom, an celebrity, was also called Jane Dexter. While still at college Baby Jane was operating professionally with an area theater group and was briefly within the Broadway solid of Locks. After college, she backed herself traveling a taxi cab while looking for stage function. She made an appearance at NY clubs and in addition on tv, in No Keeps Barred, as well as the theater, Anything Goes as well as the Music Guy. Like a great many other performers, Dexter’s profession stalled in the past due 70s when musical preferences transformed. From 1981 she was energetic like a counsellor in programs designed to present an alternative solution to jail for youthful offenders. Whenever a close friend, Helps activist, Vito Russo, persuaded her to start out singing once again, she performed at Helps benefit concerts in the Lincoln Middle as well as the Kennedy Middle. Past due in 1990, Dexter made a decision to perform a display at Eighty-Eights in Greenwich Town for Russo but he passed away right before she was planned to open up. She continued using the display and early the next 12 months was at the golf club performing a display I ACQUIRED Thunder, which she also documented. This and following displays at Eighty-Eights, Big, Poor, & Blue and GENUINE – A ROMANTIC Opera, attracted substantial and extremely favourable attention. Sketching upon her encounters like a performer so when a counsellor, and in addition upon many personal troubles by which she acquired worked her method, Dexter also created a workshop program, Curing Through Entertainment – A Motivational Functionality Art Experience FOR GIRLS. In the past due 90s, she had taken component in TED/Technotainment, an ambitious signing up for from the entertainment and technology sectors. In 1998 she produced her Carnegie Hall debut, showing up within the Weill Recital Hall to significant acclaim. In Dec of that season, she was at Lincoln Middle’s Avery Fisher Hall for the Concord Jazz Xmas present, A Singin’, Swingin’ Xmas. In 1999, she starred in WE’VE Something TO STATE. Dexter possesses a robust singing tone of voice and a solid and participating stage existence. Among awards she’s gained are Backstage mag’s Bistro Award, the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Night clubs (Macintosh) Feminine Vocalist Of THE ENTIRE YEAR honor, 1994 and 1996, as well as the Mac pc Award for Greatest Major Pop/Tempo & Blues Performer, earning the second option in 1998, 1999 and once again in 2002.