Jana Herzen Musical artist

Jana Herzen is a singer-songwriter with folk, world, rock and jazz influences who founded Motéma Music, a Harlem-based record label focused on virtuosic jazz and world music. Prior to founding the label in 2003, she worked as a musician (her CD, Soup's on Fire, was the first CD on the label), an art agent for Winston Smith, who designed the logo for Motéma. Herzen was instrumental in the publishing of Artcrime, Smith's 2nd volume of collected works on the Last Gasp publishing imprint.

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Career started2003
associated musical artist
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Babatunde Lea
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BackgroundSolo singer
genre
Jazz
World music
instrument
Bass guitar
Didgeridoo
Guitar
Thumb piano
record label
Motéma Music

Jana Herzen on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://albumcredits.com/Profile/559163
  2. http://motema.com/artist/jana-herzen
  3. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jana-herzen-p559163