What fans are saying: "sophisticated, deeply soulful and intelligent," "in turns plaintive and irreverent," with "smart world-weariness/wariness." First documented live recording: age three singing the alphabet song. Began playing the violin that same year. Joined orchestra at the age of seven experienced serious bass and cello envy, particularly because the girls got to wear pants, instead of ankle length skirts. First (un)documented theatrical production: Age seven: a two-girl re-enactment of A Chorus Line. No tits or ass to speak of, but a lot of verve. She never got the solos in chorus that she wanted, like the intro to When You Wish Upon a Star in 6th grade. Finally at the age of 13 had her voice is heard in a jazz vocal ensemble. At 17, Jamie figured out that she identified a lot more as a singer than a violinist, and gently put her violin into semi-retirement (coaxed with a drink and promise of beachfront property.) Sang all throughout college [while getting a degree in English literature] in clubs, dives and theatres, including a stint as a back-up singer for a group called Pet the Poodle. Jamie met up with an old friend on a trip to Nashville and began writing songs, the first of which won a prize in the first International John Lennon Songwriting Contest. This songwriting team flourished into a band called Methuselah Jones that she recorded and performed with for four years. She also had the pleasure of working with talented producers such as Pat Dillett (They Might Be Giants, David Byrne) and Rob Stevens (Yoko Ono, John Lennon Anthology.) Going solo: By this time Jamie was performing as a soloist with the Metro Mass Gospel choir on the stages of Carnegie Hall and Avery Fischer Hall; was singing back-up with a handful of groups; and had begun to rekindle her romance with strings and orchestral arrangements. In search of creating her own version of pop music, she began leading a group under her own name in a style that many fans called chamber-pop-soul, and recorded her first solo ep area, that received praise from ASCAP Magazine and the Aquarian Weekly among other publications. Excited, but not yet satisfied, Jamie was brought back to singing jazz and exploring her fascination with the hyper-theatricality of cabaret. And now, here she is, straddling the line between jazz, her own versionof pop and quirky cabaret, redefining and refining as she goes along.