Courtney Jaye
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Courtney Jaye is an American singer. In 2005, she released her first album, Traveling Light. She has also released "Can't Behave," from that album, as a single; this song also appears in the soundtrack for the movie Aquamarine OST. Playboy.com, in their "Woman on the Verge" series, interviewed her and discussed some of her music. She also has appeared once on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
The internet radio station KGRL featured her as their “Flower-Powered Artist” for July of 2006,[1] and as of 20 July 2007, continues to play her songs in their line-up.[2] A revamp of Courtney's page over at KGRL was posted in December 2006, which includes an exclusive interview, EP Review of 'Til It Bleeds, and an on-demand video stream of the full Club 20/20 performance last August 2006. The same page indicates that a full-length album entitled Bamboo Moon will be released in 2007.[3]
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[edit] Biography
Courtney Jaye was born Courtney Goldberg in northern Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., where she attended Fox Chapel Area School District until the beginning of her freshman year in high school. She spent her later teens in Atlanta. According to her MySpace page, it was in Pittsburgh that she found her first musical influences other than "hair metal" (in the form of The Grateful Dead). It was in Atlanta that she wrote her first song, in response to a friend's death. On graduation from high school, she moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, where she worked as an acupuncturist and joined her first band.
Jaye left Arizona with a one-way ticket to Kauai, Hawaii, intending to stay for a month or two; she stayed for a year, surfing, soaking up the island's musical style, and writing songs.
Jaye's next stop was Athens, Georgia, where she continued to refine her musical style, and fell in love. This relationship took her to Austin, Texas, but ultimately ended there, providing Jaye with a personally difficult time, but also rich material for song-writing.
Jaye moved to Los Angeles, California, where she continued to develop her musical capabilities and, with co-writer Gala, put together "Lose My Head." The success of this song led to additional collaborations, the results of which impressed executives at Island enough that they put her into the studio to cut her first album: Traveling Light, which was released in 2005.[4] She released an EP entitled 'Till it Bleeds in 2006; this EP is listed but no longer available on her site (as of 20 July, 2007), though some of its tracks do play as background music. iTunes also lists two singles released in 2007: "Are you With Me" and "Wicked Game".[5]
[edit] Influences
Jaye started songwriting as a response to a friend's death. She found catharsis in doing so, and much of her music continues to reflect the events in her life.[6]
Jaye's early musical influence was in the form of The Grateful Dead, whom she followed in high school. Later influences include The Beatles, Neil Young, Chris Isaak, and the Brazilian artists Astrud and Bebel Gilberto. Influences from her time on Kauai, Hawaii are also evident in some of her work. [7]
[edit] Discography
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Traveling Light
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'Til it Bleeds
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[edit] Soundtracks
- 2006 Aquamarine OST - with "Can't Behave"
- Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County episode 3.2: "Who Wants to Date a Rockstar" - with "Mental"
- Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County episode 3.10: "It's, Like, Break-Up Season" - with "Are You With Me"
- One Tree Hill episode 2.22: "The Tide That Left Away And Never Came Back" - with "Can You Sleep"
- Brothers & Sisters episodes 2.01: "Home Front", 2.05: "Domestic Issues" and 2.11: "The Missionary Imposition" - with "Who'll Stop The Rain"
- Brothers & Sisters episode 2.10: "The Feast of the Epiphany" - with "Sweet Ride"
[edit] Reviews
[edit] Traveling Light
[edit] 'Til it Bleeds
[edit] References
- ^ Flower-Powered Artist - July 2006. KGRL. July 2006. Retrieved 29 September 2006.
- ^ Artists Currently Being Streamed. KGRL. July 2007. Retrieved 20 July 2007.
- ^ Flower-Powered Artist - July 2006. KGRL. July 2006. Retrieved 20 July 2007.
- ^ courtneyjayefan. "Courtney Jaye bio". Blogger.com. 2005. Retrieved 30 September 2006.
- ^ iTunes. Retrieved 20 July 2007.
- ^ MySpace Music. "Courtney Jaye". MySpace. 2006. Retrieved 29 September 2006.
- ^ MySpace Music. "Courtney Jaye". MySpace. 2006. Retrieved 29 September 2006.
