Jessica Fogle
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Jessica Fogle is 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 state-wide songwriting awards, complete with school assemblies for her original music. After releasing her first studio album "Du Bist Einen Fogle!" (2010) in Chicago with producer Ethan Stoller (best known for his work with The Wachowski Brothers as Music Editor for the Netflix series "Sense8", 2015), and later re-releasing a mastered version of a partly-live album "Melancholy Frog" (2011,originally released in 2007) with producer Garrett Lane, she moved to the tiny idyllic tourist 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'- part stage name, and part collective of guest musicians - is her newest recording & performing moniker (since 2013). "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 features a number of guest musicians, including Hunter Zhao on cello, and Maddie & Daphne Jackson on banjo-ukulele, bongos, and vocal harmonies. It was recorded with Ian Gorman 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.
'Jessica in The Rainbow'- part stage name, and part collective of guest musicians - is her newest recording & performing moniker (since 2013). "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 features a number of guest musicians, including Hunter Zhao on cello, and Maddie & Daphne Jackson on banjo-ukulele, bongos, and vocal harmonies. It was recorded with Ian Gorman 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.
