Esthero
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Esthero ( ; born Jenny-Bea Englishman on December 23, 1978) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who lives in Los Angeles, California. The name Esthero refers both to the singer and formerly to the two-person team of herself and producer Doc McKinney. Esthero is a portmanteau of "Esther the hero"; she claims to have gotten the name by combining the name of the heroine (Esther) and last line ("If I am to be the hero, then I cannot fly from darkness") of the film from Sylvia Plath's only novel, The Bell Jar (1963).
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- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Toronto
- Active from
- 1978
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Born December 23, 1978 Canadian singer-songwriter and producer Jenny-Bea Englishman is better known as Esthero. At the age of sixteen, Esthero moved from small town Harriston, Ontario on her own to Toronto, where she began singing at open-mic nights, a journey that in 1997 led to a meeting with the president of EMI Publishing Canada, whom she charmed so well during their first meeting that without hearing her sing a single note he was moved to set up and finance recording sessions with Doc, a g
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bea
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Stratford
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.esthero.net
- Image
- Esthero.jpg
- Voice type
- mezzo-soprano
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- date of birth
- 1978-12-23
- start of work period
- 1997-00-00
- pseudonym
- Esthero
- birth name
- Jenny-Bea Englishman
- social media followers
- 28978
- number of viewers/listeners
- 989796
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13 sectionsContents
- Career
- Early life
- 1997: ''Breath from Another''
- 1998–2003: Collaborations and success
- 2004–2005: ''O.G. Bitch'' and ''Wikked Lil Grrrls''
- 2007–2011: Split from record company and collaborations
- 2012–present: ''Everything Is Expensive'' and "Baby Steps"
- Chart history
- Appearances on television and soundtracks
- Discography
- See also
- References
- External links
Esthero ( ; born Jenny-Bea Englishman on December 23, 1978) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who lives in Los Angeles, California. The name Esthero refers both to the singer and formerly to the two-person team of herself and producer Doc McKinney. Esthero is a portmanteau of "Esther the hero"; she claims to have gotten the name by combining the name of the heroine (Esther) and last line ("If I am to be the hero, then I cannot fly from darkness") of the film from Sylvia Plath's only novel, The Bell Jar (1963).
Esthero's sound characteristically features her voice over a mix of mellow bass lines, jazzy trumpets, classical guitar and hip-hop. She is sometimes compared to artists Björk, Portishead, Billie Holiday, and Sade. She has co-produced the majority of the material she performed. Later female artists who count Esthero among their influences include Res, Fergie and fellow Canadian Nelly Furtado.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Esthero” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.