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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- www.esthero.net
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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
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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).
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.