page_title: Jenni Alpert
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caption_attribution_description: English: Jenni Alpert at One2One bar during SXSW 2009.
context_page_description: Jenni Alpert is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and pianist. Born in Los Angeles and adopted at the age of four, she started to sing and play piano while staying in various foster homes and began writing songs early. Jenni Alpert is the first unsigned independent artist to ever release an album on iTunes under the Mastered for iTunes category which was mastered by Eric Boulanger the designer of Mastered for iTunes. And that isn't the only time she was a pioneer for something new. As familiar with jazz as she is pop, Alpert graduated from UCLA's Ethnomusicology Department as the first jazz vocalist to complete four-year jazz music program headed by Kenny Burrell. Inspired by the fusion of soul, folk, jazz, and pop, Alpert began self penning songs, co-producing, and recording concept genre albums coining the genre Soul-Americana with her unique take to sound. No stranger to the recording studio, she independently released five albums before signing a licensing deal with Scurve Records to release her sixth album Until Then recorded live in the studio in one take in Nashville, TN with guitarist Guthrie Trapp.
context_section_description: Jenni Alpert (born Cameron Morantz) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and pianist. Born in Los Angeles and adopted at the age of four, she started to sing and play piano while staying in various foster homes and began writing songs early. Jenni Alpert is the first unsigned independent artist to ever release an album (Take It All, produced by Mikal Blue) on iTunes under the Mastered for iTunes category which was mastered by Eric Boulanger the designer of Mastered for iTunes. And that isn't the only time she was a pioneer for something new. As familiar with jazz as she is pop, Alpert graduated from UCLA's Ethnomusicology Department as the first jazz vocalist to complete four-year jazz music program headed by Kenny Burrell. Inspired by the fusion of soul, folk, jazz, and pop, Alpert began self penning songs, co-producing, and recording concept genre albums coining the genre Soul-Americana with her unique take to sound. No stranger to the recording studio, she independently released five albums before signing a licensing deal with Scurve Records (Steve Greenberg) to release her sixth album Until Then recorded live in the studio in one take in Nashville, TN with guitarist Guthrie Trapp. Her music and biological reunion story caught wind of adoptees around the country when the documentary about her life and reunion with her birth father “Homeless: the Soundtrack”, filmed and edited together by Emmy Award-winning director Irene Taylor Brodsky, was accepted and screened at the Tribeca Film Festival. Additionally, Independent Singer-Songwriter Jenni Alpert has performed in over 14 countries (United States, Spain, England, Scotland, Ireland, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Australia, India, Nepal, Canada, Mexico, and Israel) with no formal representation rather solely through the support of fans, acquiring radio play on UK's the BBC, PBS Australia, Triple J, and Sirius XM Radio: The Coffee House.
  After years of being estranged from both her birth parents from having been placed in the foster care system to be adopted out in the early years of her life, and having missed the opportunity to met her birth mother when she was still living, years later with the assistance of a private investigator, Alpert found and reunited with her biological father. During their first meeting, which was initially all that had been intended, upon introducing herself as her birth nickname “Cami” to connect the early dots of both their pasts, she discovered he was happily homeless, running from the law, and addicted to drugs, but also a musician just like her. A few weeks into their reunion her birth father chose to leave a life of petty crime and drugs behind to join forces with Alpert. As their incredible developing relationship took flight, she met Chockstone Productions producers Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz, who upon hearing details their reunion story and reading ‘Home is Where My Heart Is’ the self penned article by the duo of Alpert's adoption and of their biological reunion story published by Groknation edited by friend Mayim Bialik, Chockstone producer Steve Schwartz introduced Alpert to award-winning who is an Oscar-nominated, Peabody and Emmy winning documentary film director Irene Taylor Brodsky who later followed, filmed, and interview, the dynamic duo during the second phase of their relationship detailing their life stories apart as well as their reunion and now life together. As Alpert aided her birth father through different stages of rehabilitation, acclimation, and self-discovery also getting to know him musically through developing and recording a music report together, documentary maker Brodsky filmed many days of them together editing what was to become the documentary short “Homeless: The Soundtrack” which was selected and screened at Tribeca Film Festival 2018 and honored with a Jury Award, won best short film at Nantucket Film Festival 2018, had a one-week run at the Laemmle Royal Theater in West Los Angeles, and is short listed for an IDA award in the short doc category.
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caption: Jenni Alpert at One2One bar during SXSW 2009.
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