Jesse Lynn Madera

Jesse Lynn Madera’s upbringing was chronicled by music and big moves. Born in West Virginia, she’s lived in Houston, Detroit, Nashville, New York City, and is currently settled in Los Angeles with her close-knit family. From a young age, Madera was surrounded by musical performances at family gatherings and parties (many of which included family friend, Johnnie Johnson, the legendary Chuck Berry pianist), and started seriously performing while a theatre major in high school and at NYU. She notes that “The decade of acting training did so much for me as a performer. It influences how I deliver the lyrics, how I write, how I sit or stand or talk between songs.” Americana Highways writes, "She doesn’t merely sing the words, she adds the necessary drama that fleshes out the scene in the lyric. A strong mix of tonal subtlety & wounded voicings. Never overdone, or with any unnecessary gutsiness.”

Today, Madera was listed on Music Connection Magazine’s Hot 100 Best Unsigned Artists and featured on Holler’s “10 New and Upcoming Country and Americana Artists You Need To Know.” American Songwriter further praises Madera saying “...[her] songs are passionate and alluring, with a dramatic, ethereal, and almost otherworldly tone.”

Madera’s latest single, “Woke Up In LA”, speaks to the loneliness of moving to a new city, leaving all your friends and life behind and not having a support system in place. The feeling of being entirely alone, while surrounded by crowds. The isolation can be so palpable that you wish you were anywhere but here. But you wake up in the morning, in the same place, and start all over again.

American Songwriter describes Madera’s musical sound as "one part Lilith Fair, two parts Laurel Canyon, and a dash of Texas heat," as she blends the influences she picked up living throughout the USA!