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Sweet but independent, Young but experienced, Beautiful but modest, Talented, Poetic and Refreshing are the right words to describe the Swedish/ American artist Jennifer Newberry. With flavors of different cultures, mentalities and styles, Jennifer writes songs straight from her heart. Thoughts and feelings that are melodically expressed with a soulful clear voice. A strum of a guitar or a chord played on the piano is enough to feed her inspiration to create a song. Melodies have always come easily to Jennifer and she has been perfecting her ability to write since the age of 14.

Born in a small town of United States, Jennifer grew up in a home filled with song. Her mother a singer encouraged Jennifer constantly. Her father an Army pilot whose career often times forced the family to relocate from state to state. Moving from San Diego to Germany arriving finally at her mother’s hometown of Sundsvall, Sweden where Jennifer grew up. Her mother, Marie, influenced her with all kinds of music from the Beatles to ABBA, Soul to Swedish lullaby songs as well as Jazz and the Blues. Marie laid the foundation by teaching her the techniques behind singing, running through scales and practicing harmonies.

Being involved in the music business through her mother’s endeavors prepared Jennifer for her unofficial entrance into recording and performing records of her own. A chance meeting with local music producers in her hometown presented opportunities to record original material, ultimately perfecting Jennifer’s studio recording ability. Jennifer got the opportunity to record a cover called “Jump To the Beat” feat. Melody MC, which was later released in Japan when Jennifer was 18. Not only did she get to work and collaborate with some of the most recognized hip-hop producers in Sweden, but she also sang on many hip-hop and pop artists albums.

Jennifer seized every opportunity she could and inevitably exploited every musical situation. Jennifer got the chance to be apart of “Melodifestivalen 2002”, a Swedish televised music competition to select an Artist/Group to represent Sweden in the European Music Festival (Euro Vision Contest) with the song “Ingenting Ingenting” (Nothing, Nothing) the song was released commercially right after the finals. Later on that summer she was asked to be a backup singer for Lutricia McNeal, a well-known American artist in Europe. Jennifer toured with her the entire summer. Shortly after, she decided to take a chance on returning back to the States. In her venture of moving from Seattle to New York and back again she recorded her first album “Be Who You Are”, took acting lessons at Weist-Barron, performed at the UN Building, Good Morning America (ABC) and at a NJ NETS game she also performed at the Apollo, showcased at S.O.B’s, had her music played on the radio, became the lead singer of a band named 4More that performs on weekly basis in different venues around Washington and Oregon State. Now she is working on her 2nd album “Inspiration From The Rain” and it’s planned to be released by the end of this year.

Jennifer has always had a clear ambitious picture of what she wanted to do with her life; to be successful in her own right, to be a memorable performer, vocalist, lyricist and actress. Her dreams are coming true day by day as news catches on about her talent. Jennifer is hoping that her heart and soul will reach out not only to commercial interest but also people, of all walks of life.