Jennifer Barnett

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JENNIFER BARNETT is an 18 year old jazz vocalist and songwriter from East Lansing, MI. She infuses sounds of classic female jazz vocalists from Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington to more modern icons such as Amy Winehouse and Hiatus Kaiyote in her lyrics and style. Jennifer was selected as a national finalist for Michael Feinstein’s Great American Songbook Academy vocal competition for 2016. She was a 2017 National YoungArts Winner in Jazz voice, a 2018 YoungArts winner in Popular Voice and a Finalist for Grammy Camp Jazz sessions 2017. She was also selected for Grammy Camp Nashville in 2017 as a vocalist, the only musician selected from Michigan. Additionally, Jennifer won two Downbeat Magazine student music awards in 2018. She is the national high school winner for Blues/Pop/Rock Soloist and Outstanding Performance for Vocal Jazz Soloist. Jennifer will be attending The New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York in the fall of 2018.