Career

Terran plays the piano and sings on her records, often leading to her being compared to Tori Amos

Tori Amos

Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...

. She is also, however, a hip hop dance

Hip hop dance

Hip-hop dance refers to dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture. It includes a wide range of styles notably breaking, locking, and popping which were created in the 1970s by African Americans and made popular by breaking, locking, and...

 instructor, as well as a producer, having established her own music label, Grizelda Records, on which she has produced five solo albums: Cruel, Rabbit, The Musician, Live from Painted Cave and Full Moon in 3.

Acclaim

In 2002 the Sunday Times selected her album The Musician as its second best album of the year.

In December 2007, Terran's recording of Que Sera Sera featured in a commercial for Dell's XPS computer, accompanied by exploding monitors and wrecking balls.

Personal life

Her childhood spent in Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 was infused with music and musical influences. Her father, trumpeter Tony Terran

Tony Terran

Anthony Terran or Tony Terran is an American trumpet player and session musician.Regarded as one of the most versatile trumpet players in the music business, Terran had an impact on the Los Angeles music scene for more than four decades as a specialist of many musical styles...

, was a successful session musician

Session musician

Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers, musicians, who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders...

in Los Angeles.

External links

• Jennifer Terran official site