Jennifer Berezan

Folk vocalist Jennifer Berezan was raised in Calgary, Alberta, where she began taking part in the guitar young. While attending an area Catholic senior high school, she was launched to Bob Dylan by way of a teacher; her desire for Dylan resulted in other folk-oriented music artists such as for example Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Bruce Cockburn (all fellow Canadians). Berezan went to the University or college of Calgary, and after completing a qualification in religious beliefs, she became interested and energetic in feminism. Marrying her interpersonal philosophies towards the music where she experienced previously observed just a passing curiosity, Berezan started playing significantly after she relocated to Oakland, CA, within the middle-’80s. She became quite well-known round the Bay Region and in 1989 released her debut recording, In the attention of the Surprise, recorded on her behalf own Advantage of Question label. On her behalf second full-length, 1992’s Borderlines, Berezan was nominated to discover the best Adult Contemporary Record award with the Country wide Association of Separate Record Vendors. Though Borderlines made an appearance on Flying Seafood Records, she transferred back to Advantage of Question for the next year’s Voices in the Blowing wind, a cooperation with writer Vicki Noble. Berzan’s 4th album, She Holds Me, premiered in 1995.