‘Jessica in The Rainbow’ is Jessica Fogle, a singer/songwriter/classically-trained pianist, with an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a soundtrack to a movie-musical under her belt (“Were the World Mine” – which won 15 awards, including Best Music in the 2008 Nashville Film Fest). Her truest love of writing solo songs and creating albums, however, has been with her since childhood, at which time she created bands with neighbors and later won multiple statewide songwriting awards, complete with school assemblies for her original music. After releasing her first studio album “Du Bist Einen Fogle!” in 2010, in Chicago with producer Ethan Stoller (Music Editor for the Netflix series “Sense8,” with the Wachowski Brothers), and later re-releasing a mastered version of a live album “Melancholy Frog” in 2011 (originally released in 2007, co-produced with Garrett Lane), she moved to the tiny idyllic town of Grand Haven, Michigan and began sowing new seeds. During her years in Chicago, she developed a local following, was a staple at Gallery Cabaret and The Orphanage, performed all over the city including opening for Cheer-Accident at The Hideout, and received radio airplay on WXRT.

‘Jessica in The Rainbow’ is the stage name she currently performs under, which includes a rotating cast of guest musicians. “Catalysts” – her first album as ‘Jessica in The Rainbow’ – was released independently on November 30th 2014, with a small tour in West Michigan, Chicago, and Minneapolis. The album is piano-based, mellow and atmospheric, with delicate alto vocals and her usual love of MIDI space/twinkle sounds. It also prominently features Hunter Zhao on cello, and Maddie & Daphne Jackson on banjo-ukelele, bongos, and vocal harmonies. It was recorded with Ian Gorman (of ‘Red Sea Pedestrians’, frequent studio engineer of Seth Bernard & May Erlewine, and other Earthwork artists) of La Luna Recording & Sound in Kalamazoo, MI. The album was nominated for “Best Album by a New Artist” and “Album of the Year” by the 88.1 WXRT Jammies (2015) in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and was a finalist for “Best Jazz Album” (for its jazz-folk elements). She has been compared by her fans to Jenny Lewis, Rufus Wainwright, Joanna Newsom, and Cat Power, among others. She was recently invited to be a singer/songwriter resident at ISLAND Hill House in Northern Michigan, and will have songs featured in the publication ‘Paramanu Pentaquark’. Her next album “Everything’s True” is deep in production and will prominently feature piano, in addition to orchestrations by Elisabeth Blair, to be released in 2017. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.