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| Jenn Franklin brings a refreshingly uncontrived style, with a powerful vulnerability that is catching the ears of industry executives. "When I first heard that voice, I told Jenn to stay away from vocal coaches at all costs!...It would be like trying to improve on Tiger Wood's golf swing," Bart Herbison, Executive Director, Nashville Songwriters Association International, NSAI. "Jenn Franklin is a commanding performer who shines both on CD and live performance."-Madalyn Sklar, GoGirlsMusic.com 2006 marks the August release of the 6-song EP, Errors and Admissions, on her own label, Animus 7 Music. The album is a collaboration between Franklin and Nashville writer/producer Peter Overton, and is a collection of her most emotionally electric material. Prior to her EP release, Franklin was invited to showcase at the 2006 SXSW music conference as well as Diversafest, Midwest Music Summit, 2NMC, and the Nashville ASCAP Writers Series. She also appears on the nationally-distributed compilation CD: GoGirls Musicfest 2006. Jenn Franklin is a natural born singer, songwriter, composer and performer whose life experiences and unique voice come together to make uniquely powerful music. She began her professional performing career at twelve, belting out Metallica and Van Halen covers, in the local biker bars of Hays, Kansas. After discovering her passion for performing, she spent the next few years headlining local acts and developing her own personal style. Following influences from artists as diverse as Aretha Franklin, Fiona Apple, Patty Griffin, and Janis Joplin, Franklin's own music emerged as poignant and evocative, piano-based compositions. For Franklin writing and performing is a necessary act of transformation (metamorphosis) as she puts her pain on paper: "I make powerful songs. I turn painful experiences into art and share the truths I discover in the process." |
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