Jenn Champion | |
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 Champion in Mexico, 2014. | |
| Background information | |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, guitarist |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar, piano |
| Years active | 1999–present |
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| Formerly of | Carissa's Wierd |
Jenn Champion, formerly known as Jenn Ghetto, is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. She is known for being the frontwoman of the band Carissa's Wierd and her solo career under the name S.
Champion grew up in Tucson, Arizona where, in the mid 1990s, she worked selling pizza with future bandmates Ben Bridwell and Mat Brooke. In 1997 the trio moved to Olympia, Washington for a year [1] before moving to Seattle. [1] [2] She identifies as a lesbian and has done so since very early in her career. [3]
In Seattle, Champion and Brooke formed Carissa's Wierd, who released three studio albums, the first two on Bridwell's Brown Records label. The band broke up in 2003 and since then three compilation albums have been released. Carissa's Wierd reformed for a one off show in Seattle on July 9, 2010 [4] to promote their "best of" album, They'll Only Miss You When You Leave: Songs 1996–2003, which was released by Hardly Art Records on July 13, 2010.
In July 2010, Mat Brooke announced that he and Champion had bought the rights to Carissa's Wierd's back catalogue from Sad Robot Records. He said, "Me and Jenn have been working for a while to buy back the rights to all of our records and we finally were able to get them all back." This should allow all of Carissa's Wierd's albums to be re-released soon. [5]
Champion has recorded four solo albums under the name S. Her songs are usually recorded in her bedroom and feature only vocals and guitar. 2010's I'm Not As Good at It As You featured eleven songs recorded on an 8 track machine between 2006 and 2008, along with "Wait", the album's opening track, which features her former Carissa's Wierd bandmates Mat Brooke (ukulele & banjo) and Sarah Standard (violin). Champion's most recent album, Cool Choices, was produced by former Death Cab For Cutie guitarist Chris Walla and was released on Hardly Art Records in September 2014.
On September 8, 2015, Champion released the following statement on her Facebook page, explaining that she would no longer use "Ghetto" as her moniker. She changed the name due to the word ghetto being linked to systemic racism. [6] [ self-published source ]
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