Artist description Female singer, songwriter, and musician. Acoustic demo's.

Music Style Shoegazer/Dream-Pop

Musical Influences Cocteau Twins, Bee Gees, The Sundays, Esthero, Depeche Mode, Love Spirals Downwards, The Cranberries, Sarah McLachlan, Lush, Olive, Brendan Perry, Solar Twins, Red House Painters, Duncan Sheik

Similar Artists Love Spirals Downwards, Cocteau Twins, The Sundays, Mira, Velour 100, Bel Canto, Jewel, The Cranberries, Lush, Slowdive, Olive, Solar Twins, Sarah McLachlan, Red House Painters, Lush, Bee Gees

Artist History Jakki Jelene is a 24 year old singer, songwriter, & musician from Michigan. Music has always been an essential part of her life as she performed in several programs throughout elementary school. In junior high she explored her love for music further when she began playing the saxophone and was also active in school choir. For the next several years, she would also grow in her musical tastes, spanning from 40's jazz to 90's dream-pop. It wasn't until she was 21 years old that she would get her first guitar. She immediately began to write countless songs and for the first time in her life she began to contribute to music in an independant way. "Acoustic Demo's" is the first example of her songwriting and vocal skills. Her future goals are to expand on this by finding another musician to collaborate with in creating a legitimate studio album.

Group Members Jakki Jelene

Instruments Acoustic Guitar

Albums Acoustic Demo's

Press Reviews Originally from Traverse City, the dreamy voiced singer/songwriter/musician Jakki Jelen describes her music as being a combination of dream pop, synth pop, and shoegazer. Jakki cites her influences as bands that don't normally get much recognition, like the Cocteau Twins, Bel Canto, Duncan Sheik, and the Alan Parsons Project. Jakki just released a demo CD to give others an idea of what her voice and songs sound like, with the hope of finding other like-minded artists to work with. Entitled "Acoustic Demo's", the CD features 12 tracks of her poetic songs, simmering with passion, accompanied only by her acoustic guitar. Jakki's songs are about love, lust, seduction, pleasure, and pain. Check out the lyrics to the seductive, "Regardless": "...lose yourself and give into this ever growing lust, feel my love, feel my breath, feel me deep inside, feel all that I have to give, let me be your guide." Whew! While Jakki says that she doesn't consider "Acoustic Demo's" to be a legitimate CD, I enjoyed it and believe she's a very promising artist. My favorite tracks are the afore-mentioned "Regardless", "Time Machine", "Day Dreaming", "A Door & A Window", and "Lullaby". -Mark Clark of Jam Rag (Detroit's Music Magazine) [August 2002]

Location Detroit, MI - USA

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