Jenny Owen Youngs
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Youngs performing, as the opening act for Vienna Teng, in Portland, Oregon's Mississippi Studios. Photo by Adam J. Manley.
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| Background information | |
| Born | November 22, 1981 |
| Genres | Indie Pop, Alternative, Indie Folk |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, bass, flute, tuba |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Labels | Nettwerk |
| Website | jennyowenyoungs.com |
Jenny Owen Youngs (born November 22, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter. She is from Montclair, New Jersey. She has released three albums, four EPs and a handful of singles. After being signed to Nettwerk she has been self-releasing through crowd funding since 2012. Youngs has performed internationally both as headliner and support act.
Youngs grew up playing the flute in elementary school and the tuba in junior high school. At age 14, her older step-brother told her that if she wanted to be in a band she needed to learn how to play the guitar. She graduated from State University of New York at Purchase with a degree in studio composition.
Her album Batten the Hatches was recorded with borrowed equipment at SUNY-Purchase and self-released in 2005. In 2006, a song from that album, "Fuck Was I", appeared in the second season premiere of Showtime's Weeds, resulting in Batten the Hatches being re-released on April 10, 2007 with new artwork and an extra track ("Drinking Song") on the Canadian indie label Nettwerk. "Fuck Was I" was also released on Weeds: Music from the Original Series, Vol. 2.
In addition to her solo career, she is in the band The Robot Explosion, a side project with fellow musicians and friends Bess Rogers, Andrew Futral, and Saul Simon-MacWilliams. She also took part in an online Podcast through Myspace with Rogers and Futral, entitled 'Once More With Feeling' (named after the musical episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer).
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