Biography

Voted Best Female Singer- SevernFM UK
"5 Stars! All bow down to the Voodoo Queen"
"Bursting with attitude, personality, sex appeal" - HuffPost
"That voice is impossible to ignore"
"All that is good and holy in American music"
"The debut from this L.A. act flat out smokes!"
Top 50 Albums of 2013~ Popa's Tunes

Funkyjenn is a native daughter of the Golden West. Born in Hollywood to a show business family, she cut her teeth in musical theater, songwriter demo tapes and background vocals for many LA bands before writing her own material.

As a young child, Funkyjenn literally grew up on the soundstage of Dick Clark’s "American Bandstand". Every Saturday was an invitation to a world filled with rock goddesses, pop princesses, AM-70 kings and soul queens. Her live performances are filled with the same raw, powerful emotion as inspired as the very performers Funkyjenn grew up watching.

Powerhouse vocals, soaring guitars, honky tonk rhythms and Muscle Shoals soul is at the heart of Funkyjenn’s musical melange. She is a chugging rock and soul machine who harkens back to a day when live studio recording, analog machines and the smell of pressed vinyl ruled the Sunset Strip.

The reviews for Funkyjenn's debut album, "Rock And Roll Voodoo Queen”, released in 2013, had her compared with such legends as Tina Turner, Janis Joplin, Etta James and Otis Redding. Huffington Post says she’s “bursting with attitude. personality and sex appeal”. She also ended up on several Top 50 albums year-end lists and 5-Star album ratings from coast to coast.

In 2014 she released her highly-acclaimed Christmas album “Sing To The Angels" (where she is compared to early gospel Aretha Franklin) and this year she released two summer singles, “Oh Come Dancing”, a honky-tonk dancehall number and the mystical “Wonderland”, a song about the magical, musical communities that glitter the canyons of Los Angeles. Her new single, “Strings That Bend”, a melodic, sweeping ballad, will be released in Fall of 2015.

Her voice has also been featured on albums by The Mighty Stef (QOTSA producer + Them Crooked Vultures bassist Alain Johannes), Scott Mellis (Blind Melon bassist + producer Brad Smith), Grant Langston, Chris Laterzo & Buffalo Robe, The Damngivers, Stewart Eastham, Matt Barrow, The One Day On Earth Project, Fur Traders and more. She has performed in front of thousands at the Hollywood Bowl and venues all over the West Coast.

ROCK AND ROLL VOODOO QUEEN (Rock/Soul)
With thick layers of instrumentation fronted by Funkyjenn’s power vocals, Rock And Roll Voodoo Queen is guitar-driven emotional ride through feelings of swoon-inducing love, dirty lust and heart-wrenching exits. This is a tightly produced, hook-laden rock album appealing to rock, soul, and pop fans alike.

Tracks:
Shoulda Been My Lover
Boom Boom
Butterflies Bleed
Nashville, TN
Outta Sight Outta Mind
Rock And Roll Voodoo Queen

SING TO THE ANGELS (Christmas/Holiday)

"Sing To The Angels" is 24 minutes of uplifting, heart-warming songs of love and joy. There's foot-stompin' southern gospel, super sweet dance pop, spiritual folk, dirty doowop blues, torchy jazz and a special guest appearance by Funkyjenn's 88 year-old mother Ludmila Gibbons, a former singer with the Metropolitan Opera (1940's), singing the beloved traditional Christmas hymn "O Holy Night". This album will quickly become one of your seasonal favorites!

Special guest Marc Ford (The Black Crowes) plays lead guitar on "Just Me And The Mistletoe". Storm Rhode IV (Chely Wright) is featured on dobro on "The Mighty Star" and "Sing To The Angels"

Additional players: Ted Russell Kamp, John Schreffler, Jr, Carl Byron, Jamies Douglass, Scott Kinnebrew, Dan Janisch, Debra Tala, Bliss Bowen, Sam Park

TRACKS:
Sing To The Angels
I'll Be Your Present, Boy
The Mighty Star
Just Me And The Mistletoe
Christmas Means I Love You
O Holy Night