Jenn Cristy

Now with six solo albums, Jenn began her career with John Mellencamp, meeting the Hoosier rocker in Bloomington, Indiana, where she was in the midst of an all-American swimming career at Indiana University. During her stint with Mellencamp’s band she proved her versatility, playing flute, piano, percussion, organ, and violin in addition to singing. When she embarked on her solo career in 2003, she wanted to create a sound that both honored all of her varied influences – from Ben Folds to Pink and Bruce Hornsby to Queen – while creating something decidedly original.

It is clear that her music has found a hungry audience. Cristy has played around the country, sharing the stage with a veritable who's-who of artists – Kelly Clarkson, Bob Seger, Pentatonix, Paramore, Shawn Mullins, John Eddie, Bree Sharp, Jeffery Gaines, and Michael Gabliki (Rusted Root) –or dominating it herself. Her songs have earned praise everywhere from blogs and small-town newspapers to The New York Times. The piano-driven rock is a platform for lyrics that encompass everything from matters of the heart to politics to straight-ahead fun…or murder. In Cristy’s world, every story has a melody.

“Jenn Cristy music can’t be simply categorized. It’s not pop in the slightest, definitely not the cookie cutter style of what pop has become today. It’s a basis of rock that skips between areas of music; it’s a variety of different stories carried through the most fitting musical tone of a voice; it’s a love letter to all of the best part of music she’s come to enjoy and appreciate.”