JANA HERZEN
Genres: Pop, Art Song, Folk, Vocal Jazz • United States

Jana Herzen is a singer-songwriter with folk, world, rock and jazz influences who founded Motéma Music, a Harlem-based record label focused on virtuosic jazz and world music. Prior to founding the label in 2003, she worked as a musician (her CD, Soup's on Fire, was the first CD on the label), an art agent for Winston Smith, who designed the logo for Motéma.Herzen was instrumental in the publishing of Artcrime, Smith's 2nd volume of collected works on the Last Gasp publishing imprint. Born of world renowned scientists, Professors Leonard and Leonore Herzenberg, Herzen was raised on the campus of Stanford University, attended Stanford from 1977–79, and New York University from 1980 to 1982 where she completed an undergraduate degree in drama. While at NYU, she met Bernard Telsey and Robert LuPone. Together with Lupone and Telsey, and 5 other NYU graduates, she participated as a founding member of the award-winning theatre read more...