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  • Active: 2000s
  • Genres: Rock
  • Instrument: Vocals
  • Representative Albums: "Firesight

Biography

New Jersey native Jessie Baylin began plotting her songwriting career at an early age, penning poems while still in elementary school and -- at the ripe age of 13 -- singing for customers at the Fire Sight Inn, a local jazz bar that her parents owned. Although moved by the work of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Barbra Streisand, Baylin didn't compose her own songs until several years later, when she relocated to California after graduating from high school. She then settled in Los Angeles and honed her songwriting skills in private, eventually emerging with a batch of demos that mixed her jazz and pop/rock influences. After generating label interest through her demo tapes and a residency at the Los Angeles club The Mint (as well as recurring gigs at the Hotel Café, which paired Baylin with a number of other emerging songwriters), the singer signed with the Verve Forecast label and released her debut effort, Firesight, in 2008. She also became engaged to Nathan Followill, the drummer for Kings of Leon, and resettled in Nashville with her fiancé. ~ Andrew Leahey & Katherine Fulton, All Music Guide
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Jessie Baylin

Jessie Baylin 2 July 2008
Background information
Born April 4, 1984 (1984-04-04) (age 25)
Origin Gillette, New Jersey
United States
Genres Folk, jazz
Occupations Singer, songwriter
Instruments Vocals, guitar
Labels Verve Forecast
Website www.jessiebaylin.com

Jessie Baylin is a Nashville based singer/songwriter born April 4, 1984, in Gillette, New Jersey.[1] Her debut album You was produced by Grammy Award winner Jesse Harris and is distributed only through iTunes.[2]

Jessie and her band have toured with and performed with Marc Broussard, James Morrison, Dolores O'Riordan, Brett Dennen, Animal Liberation Orchestra, Teitur, and Newton Faulker.[3]

The song "So Hard" from You was recently featured on the popular television show, "Army Wives" on Lifetime.[4]

Baylin signed her first major label record deal with Verve Forecast. 'Firesight' was released on June 24, 2008 and debuted #34 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart.[5]

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Early life

Born in Gillette, New Jersey, Baylin hung around in the bar and restaurant her parents owned throughout her childhood. “The energy in there is powerful,” Baylin relates. “We got some shady regulars, and I grew up completely enchanted by their stories.” Her mother would join her in singalongs of classic pop music, but by age 13 young Jessie had discovered some of her greatest influences – Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. She was also inspired by Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland and their emotional intensity electrified her. "They just let it all hang out," she notes. "Something about artists who looks vulnerable enough to break but at the same time are so powerful... I love that fine line. That’s why I put so much into my stage performance, because that’s what inspires me." [6]

Baylin moved to Los Angeles after attending Professional Children's School (where she was close friends with Scarlett Johannson) to escape her "comfort zone", and admittedly, "to escape New Jersey". Baylin wrote her first song with a friend and immediately knew she’d found her calling. Afterward, she cut some demos, resulting in a residency at the Mint, which led to a growing interest in her work in the record industry. She became a regular singer at the Hotel Café, emerging as a pillar of a vibrant grass-roots scene of young singer/songwriters. [7] [8]Jesse has since moved to Nashville to live with her husband Nathan Followill, drummer from rock band Kings Of Leon.[9]

Discography

Baylin opens for James Morrison at Toronto's Mod Club Theatre, April 5, 2007

Jesse's first first album, "You" was an intimate, stylish amalgam of pop, jazz, blues, Western swing, and other rootsy styles. The album was produced by Jesse Harris with Norah Jones, who co-wrote most of the songs. The album was released exclusively on iTunes.

Her second album, "Firesight", was released on the Verve Forecast label in 2008. The album was written by Baylin, Jesse Harris, Mike Daly, Mark Goldenberg, Greg Wells and Danny Wilde, and was produced and engineered by Roger Moutenot.[10] Jesse toured on this album in 2009, supporting Marc Broussard. [11]

Personal life

Jessie is married to Nathan Followill, one of the founding members of and the drummer for Kings of Leon. The two were married on November 14, 2009 in Brentwood, Tennessee at the Wolf Den Farm.[12]

References

  1. ^ http://www.last.fm/music/Jessie+Baylin
  2. ^ http://www.lala.com/#artist/Jessie_Baylin
  3. ^ http://www.lala.com/#artist/Jessie_Baylin
  4. ^ http://www.lala.com/#artist/Jessie_Baylin
  5. ^ http://www.lala.com/#artist/Jessie_Baylin
  6. ^ http://www.lala.com/#artist/Jessie_Baylin
  7. ^ http://www.lala.com/#artist/Jessie_Baylin
  8. ^ http://www.lala.com/#artist/Jessie_Baylin
  9. ^ http://laist.com/2008/05/21/jessie_baylin.php
  10. ^ http://musicremedy.com/j/Jessie_Baylin/album/Firesight-5080.html Music Redemy
  11. ^ http://www.jessiebaylin.com/
  12. ^ http://laist.com/2008/05/21/jessie_baylin.php

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