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Jesca Ada Hoop is a American singer-songwriter and guitarist from Northern California, who performs music that covers differing genres. Her musical mentor has been Tom Waits.
One of five children in a fifth generation Mormon couple, Hoop was steeped in a musical environment created by her family. She began performing as a child and starred in her high school choir.
Hoop broke away from the strictures of Mormonism just as her parents were separating. During this time, her mother Janette turned the basement into a theatre, and brought in all sorts of eccentrics to rehearse and put on musical plays for the community.
Jesca started to rebel against the traditions of her family and the only life she had known. “My girlfriend and I started smoking pot, which was such an out there thing for me to do given my upbringing. I was singing with the Santa Rosa Chamber Choir at that time. The combination of singing in that style for hours a day and smoking thrashed my voice…until it was gone. I had to leave the choir, and it took me about a year to regain my vocal strength. I had to re-teach myself how to sing in the ways that worked for me… Cut a new pattern and stitch myself back together. It was a blessing. It is why I sing the way I do. Appropriately, at that t...
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Top 10 Jesca Hoop Songs
Intelligentactile 101
Summertime
Seed of Wonder
Money
Enemy
Silverscreen
Out The Back Door
Dreams In The Hollow
Havoc in Heaven
Love Is All We Have
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Top 10 Jesca Hoop Albums
Kismet
Hunting My Dress
Kismet Acoustic EP
Silverscreen Demos
Kismet Acoustic EP (EP)
Hunting My Dress (Deluxe Version)
Four Dreams
Silverscreen
Summertime
Kismet (Full Length Release)
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