Juliane Gardner started her life in Brooklyn New York, however, when she was four her father decided to move them out of the big borough back to the coast of Maine, it was then that a country girl was born.
"My father's love of jazz would [+]Juliane Gardner started her life in Brooklyn New York, however, when she was four her father decided to move them out of the big borough back to the coast of Maine, it was then that a country girl was born.
"My father's love of jazz would be my first major influence," Juliane recounts. "We used to spend countless hours playing along to the records from the Be-Bop era.
Spending her youth growing up in a small community, she had the opportunity to join Cold Comfort Productions, a local summer stock theatre company that focused on musicals. By the age of nine, Juliane was featured in vocal solos. After being involved with the group for eight years, in classics such as Oliver, Oklahoma, and the Sound of Music, she was hooked and has loved performing ever since.
"When I look back, I was strongly influenced by the contemporary pop/rock singers in my teens like Prince, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Paul Simon, The Smiths, and Peter Gabriel. However, during my early twenties my jazz roots resurfaced while in a vocal jazz program in college. I became very interested in singing jazz, some of my favorite vocalists were and still are: Carmen MacRae, Johnny Hartman, Lambert Hendricks and Ross, Ray Charles, Etta James, and of course Ella Fitzgerald."
"I think the two worlds of jazz and folk merged for me when I started listening to Joni Mitchell. I'll never forget where I was when I heard her version of "Good bye Pork Pie Hat" (sung by Joni with lyrics she had written); it changed my whole outlook on what it meant to be a vocalist. All these new possibilities were open to me in terms of self-expression; here's a folk singer capturing her take on what it was like to be an Afro-American sax player (Lester Young) during the 1940's and 50's, as she puts it, '...A bright star in a Dark Age, when the band stand had a thousand ways of refusing a black man admission, black musician...' I heard this and was moved to tears. It would be years before I started playing the guitar and creating my own songs, but the seeds were planted that night."
Through out her college years Juliane joined and formed many groups, She fronted everything from Top 40 bands to Jazz Trios before shifting her focus to her own song writing. "I remember I
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