"Cactus" is the video with which you present to the American country singer-songwriter Karianne Jean. You can buy "Cactus" in this iTunes link.
Karianne Jean was born to be a star. At the young age of 2 years old she started singing every Disney Princess song she learned. Her mother, a classically trained vocalist, encouraged her to pursue any dream and taught her proper technique when singing.
Jean’s influences range from Mariah Carey to The Eagles to Patsy Cline to Kelly Clarkson. She says that her home was always filled with music and her mom always played great voices which Jean would mimic as a young girl.
At the age of 12 years old she started writing songs. She says, “They were mostly poems back then but I always wrote to a melody in my head, they were acapella songs I guess haha.” Since then, Jean has taken Songwriting classes in college and employed a music theory teacher, Los Angeles’s Andrew Weitz, who taught her about the musical side of the songs she’d been writing for a decade. He also taught her to play basic piano which she feels brought her craft full circle. “When I learned how to make sense of chords on the piano to aid in my writing it made everything so much clearer to me! Finally I could write a song top to bottom without any help if I wanted to.”
Jean grew up in Palmdale, CA, a small desert town about 2.5 hours from Los Angeles. She moved to Studio City, CA at 22 years old and lived there for about a year while she worked with a producer by the name of Craig Stull who she co-wrote her most recent single with, “Cactus.” Of working with Mr. Stull she says, “He taught me so much about the production and recording side of being an artist. You don’t think about things like over pronunciation or consistent vocal volume when you are just singing to sing, he made me a far better recording artist & I can’t thank him enough. Craige also really understood my vision for the songs I was writing. He valued my opinion and creative ability and helped me to bring one of my favorite song’s I’ve written “Cactus” to life.”
Today, Karianne Jean is living in Nashville, TN to dive into the songwriting and country music community head first. “I don’t do anything lightly, I knew if I wanted to make it in Country music I would have to move to Nashville eventually so I just took the plunge with the support of my long-time boyfriend, family and friends. This is what I have always known I was meant to do and I’m just so ready to live in the journey” says Jean.
You can follow Marianne Jean at:
Her Web www.kariannejean.com
Her Twitter twitter.com/KarianneJean
Her Facebook www.facebook.com/KarianneJeanMusic
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