Jessie Baylin

2010 is the year of rebirth for Jessie Baylin. She has left Verve Forecast, the home to her 2008 album Firesight. Out on her own and independent, she has been able to grasp her new-found freedom and get a fresh start on recording her latest project. Jessie has taken to the studio with noted producer Kevin Augunas (Cold War Kids, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros) to bring life to songs she has spent a year and half fine-tuning.



Jessie Baylin’s road to a musical career has been an unconventional one. She gained her initial performing experience during early childhood, singing for customers at the Fire Sight Inn, the New Jersey restaurant/jazz bar that her parents owned. It was there that she developed her lifelong affinity for music, as well as gaining some early insights into human nature by observing the establishment’s colorful clientele.



Shortly after graduating from high school, Baylin demonstrated her iconoclastic spirit by leaving her family and friends behind to move to Los Angeles. After an extended period honing her budding songwriting skills in solitude, Baylin recruited a band and booked her first show at L.A. club, the Mint. Almost immediately, she developed a local buzz and an enthusiastic following. “When I started playing out in L.A., it was the first time in my life that I actually felt like me,’ she says. “I could walk into a place and feel like all of me was there."



In 2007, a co-writing session with songwriter/producer/recording artist Jesse Harris (best-known for his Grammy-winning work with Norah Jones) organically grew into a recording project that became Baylin's first album, You. 2008 saw the release of Jessie’s follow up album, Firesight, named after her parent’s jazz bar that had been the birthplace of her love for music and entertaining. Recorded in Jessie’s newly adopted hometown of Nashville, the album offers a vibrant, soulful showcase for her talents as both an uncommonly insightful songwriter and a deeply expressive, effortlessly charismatic vocalist.



After a year of extensive touring in 2009, Jessie returned to record in L.A., one of the earliest sources of her songwriting inspiration. As she passionately explained, "I’m currently in the studio, making a truly wonderful album and could not be happier. I am in control, I am empowered and I promise that you will now get to hear this album, the way it should sound and with the right vibe and spirit.” Jessie's forthcoming album is expected to be released in late 2010.



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