Hailing from Michigan, home to luminary vocal legends like Aretha Franklin, Betty Carter, and her mentor, Abbey Lincoln, Jenna’s mixed heritage household and neighborhood surrounded her with a vast array of diverse culture and music. And the rest is HERstory…
At the tender age of five, Jenna Mammina began singing in church and in clubs with her siblings Nino, Mitch and Lisa. Visiting to her mother’s Native American reservation in New Mexico and experiencing the healing power of music planted the seed that would eventually define the power of the gift she now possesses. “I have fallen under Jenna’s spell,” writes Oakland Tribune music critic Jim Herrington. “I hope to never recover from it.”
With thousands of miles and performances under her tri-coastal musical gypsy skirt, Jenna has claimed the San Francisco Bay Area as her home and sanctuary. She has performed with a vast array of legendary talent such as Bobby McFerrin, Rickie Lee Jones, Al Jarreau, Phish, David Sanborn, Liz Story, Tuck Andress, and Rosemary Clooney to name a few.
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