Jenna Raine

Jenna Raine's bright, earnest pop merges earthy textures and instruments like piano with sleek, modern production. A onetime member of preteen pop group L2M, she went solo in 2018 with the poignant relationship song "Us." Following the next year's debut EP, Nen, she made her major-label solo debut with another earnest ballad, "See You Later (Ten Years)." Released in September 2021, it garnered tens of millions of streams by the time a remix featuring JVKE arrived early the following year. The companion EPs Big Dumb Heart, Chapter 1 and Big Dumb Heart, Chapter 2 came out in 2023, with the latter's resilient clap-along single "It Is What It Is" becoming a viral TikTok dance. With the 2024 release of the resilient "Roses," Raine found her breakout moment. Her biggest hit to date, it was later included on 2025's Only Started Growing EP. Jenna Raine Simmons grew up in Westlake, Texas, where her parents started her on voice lessons after she impressed the audience at a school talent show with her performance of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" in the third grade. At the recommendation of a family friend, she trained at Septien Entertainment Group in Dallas and was eventually cast as one of the preteen singing voices for the 2016 animated movie LEGO Friends: Girlz 4 Life, with Mariangeli Collado, Lexi Drew, Mckenzie Mack, and Tati McQuay. The girls formed the spin-off group L2M ("Listening to Music"), which released songs from the movie through Warner Bros., starting in January 2016 with "Girlz," an anthem written and produced by Soulshock, who had previously created hits with Monica, Whitney Houston, Usher, and JoJo, among others. The similarly upbeat and confident songs "Incredible," "B.E.A.T.," and "Living for the Rhythm" were released as singles into early 2017. This primed L2M for Hyperlinked, a live-action web series in which the girls starred as web designers and coders.With her bandmates also pursuing solo opportunities, Simmons released her first solo single, "Us," as Jenna Raine in October 2018. Featuring songs co-written by Simmons, singer/songwriter Candice Pillay, and composer/producer Edgar Vargas (In Real Life, Bad Bunny), the personal EP Nen (named after her childhood nickname "Nenna") followed in January 2019. Later that year, she opened tours for Max & Harvey and In Real Life (winners of ABC TV's Boy Band).Jenna Raine had her biggest solo streaming success yet with the ballad "See You Later (Ten Years)," which marked her debut on Warner Records in September 2021. It was joined in early 2022 by a remix of the song featuring JVKE. She continued to release new songs every few months, and in May 2023, she issued the EP Big Dumb Heart, Chapter 1, with its companion, the more upbeat Big Dumb Heart, Chapter 2, arriving in August. The second chapter's "It Is What It Is" became a TikTok dance sensation and her most popular song since "See You Later (Ten Years)." 2024's empowering single "Roses" gave Raine yet another boost when it too went viral, practically eclipsing her earlier work. The success of "Roses" became a defining breakout moment in her solo career and she quickly followed it with well-received singles like "21" and "Good Grief." All three songs were included on Raine's 2025 EP Only Started Growing.
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