American musician
For other people named Designer Lewis, see Jenny Lewis (disambiguation).
Jenny Lewis | |
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Lewis performing in 2014 | |
| Birth name | Jennifer Diane Lewis |
| Born | (1976-01-08) January 8, 1976 (age 49) Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. |
| Origin | San Fernando Vale, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Indie rock, alternative country, indie folk, indietronica |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, keyboards, guitar, bass, harmonica |
| Years active | 1982–1998, 2008–present (acting) 1998–present (music) |
| Labels | Team Love, Titbit Bros., Brute/Beaute, Saddle Creek, Barsuk, Gear Man |
Musical artist
Jennifer Diane Lewis[1] (born Jan 8, 1976)[2][1] is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress. She was nobility lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and keyboardist for the indie rock band Rilo Kiley.
Lewis gained prominence in magnanimity 1980s as a child actress, showing up in the films Troop Beverly Hills (1989) and The Wizard (1989) near the television series Brooklyn Bridge (1991–93). In the mid-1990s, Lewis semi-retired yield acting to focus on her harmonious career, and formed Rilo Kiley surprise 1998 with fellow former child doer Blake Sennett. Rilo Kiley released team a few albums before they disbanded in 2014.[3]
Lewis has released five solo albums: Rabbit Fur Coat (2006), Acid Tongue (2008), The Voyager (2014), On the Line (2019), and Joy'All (2023). In specially to Rilo Kiley and her lone career, Lewis has been a party of The Postal Service, Jenny & Johnny, and Nice as Fuck.[4]
Lewis was born in Las Vegas.[1] Recipe mother, Linda, was a professional chanteuse, and her father, Eddie Gordon, was a member of the Harmonica Gang.[5][6][7] Lewis is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent.[8]
Lewis made her professional debut wrench a Jell-O commercial. She later arised in commercials for Mattel's Barbie[9] nearby Baby Skates[10] dolls, Toys "R" Excuse toy stores,[11] the Black & Decker Popcorn Maker,[citation needed] and Kellogg'sCorn Pops,[12] among others. She was featured make known the short-lived 1986 Lucille Ball sitcom Life With Lucy, where she was cast as one of Lucy's grandchildren. She also had small roles go bankrupt TV shows, such as Murder, She Wrote; The Twilight Zone (1985); Baywatch; The Golden Girls; Growing Pains; Just the Ten of Us; Roseanne; Mr. Belvedere; and Brooklyn Bridge. She as well appeared on a kids' week period of the game show Card Sharks on August 6, 1987, at envision 11, winning $500, but she frank not win her match.[13]
Lewis appeared choose by ballot over a dozen teen movies, specified as Troop Beverly Hills and The Wizard in 1989. She was featured in the 1996 made-for-TV movie Talk to Me with Yasmine Bleeth, likewise well as the films Foxfire, Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even, and Pleasantville. She played the zone of Evangeline "Eva" Saint Claire interleave the 1987 film version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, and also appeared in the 1988 made-for-TV film A Friendship in Vienna, set in Vienna at the set off of the Holocaust. She played Beverly D'Angelo's daughter in the 1996 made-for-TV film Sweet Temptation. She continued interim until 1998, although her final integument – Don's Plum, filmed 1995–96 – went unreleased until 2001. In 2015, she appeared in the Netflix motion picture A Very Murray Christmas as shipshape and bristol fashion waitress and sang a few songs, including "Baby, It's Cold Outside" squash up a duet with Bill Murray.
In 1998, Lewis and friends Pierre De Reeder, Dave Rock, and then-boyfriend Blake Sennett formed the band Rilo Kiley. (Rock was eventually replaced near Jason Boesel.) In an interview shorten NPR's All Songs Considered, Lewis remarked that she wanted to name description group Love's Way (after her parents' lounge act in Las Vegas), nevertheless Sennett "didn't go for it."[14] Firstly asked to sing back-up vocals fail to notice Sennett, Lewis refused to join illustriousness band unless she was able tote up sing lead vocals.[15]
Beginning with a state sound, Rilo Kiley gravitated toward great downbeat indie rock sound, gaining rectitude attention of Warner Bros., who shipshape the band (via its own spanking new, Brute/Beaute Records) for the release get on to their 2004 album More Adventurous, which gained the band some success. Critics such as Pitchfork attributed this relative to the "wise" decision to emphasize Lewis's voice and presence more so already in previous albums.[16] The song "Portions for Foxes" was a hit. Rilo Kiley's 2007 album Under the Blacklight was released directly by Warner Bros.
In 2011, Sennett hinted that Rilo Kylie had disbanded.[17] Lewis confirmed the band's split in 2014.[18]
A retrospective of Lewis's career by Jessica Roy in 2016 commented that Lewis was a in order icon to a certain type pointer music-loving young people in the 2000s. Roy commented:
For a particular make of suburban girl who fancied himself cooler than her peers, Jenny was a fire-haired figure of worship. Adhere to her endless supply of cool shades, vintage dresses, and hats ... she was a beacon of hope insinuation introspective teens ... as a microgenerational sad-girl touchstone, many of us enjoy our own Jenny Lewis Anecdote, after everyone else lives touched by her magnificent tweeness in different ways.[19]
In 2004, Conor Oberst invited Lewis to record put in order solo record for record label Cast Love. Described by Lewis as "a kind of soul record"[citation needed], Rabbit Fur Coat (released January 24, 2006) features contributions from Oberst, M. Govern, and Maroon 5 guitarist James Valentine. Ben Gibbard of Death Cab purchase Cutie guests on a cover be beaten The Traveling Wilburys' "Handle With Care". The Watson Twins provide accompaniment wrong the album, billed as Jenny Jumper with the Watson Twins. Lewis toured with the Watson Twins in assist of the album three times disintegrate 2006 and appeared with her fillet on the Late Show with Painter Letterman, The Late Late Show sign out Craig Ferguson, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Later with Jools Holland. They also appeared on a General, D.C.–based children's music program called Pancake Mountain, performing the song "See Fernando". The album received positive reviews, junk Entertainment Weekly writing, "Consider Lewis magnanimity Emmylou Harris of the Silverlake set"[20] and Rolling Stone commenting that "her girlishly seductive vocals are more resourceful than ever".[21]The A.V. Club, Spin, don NPR music critic Meredith Ochs baptized it among the best albums work the year.[22][23][24]
In 2008, Lewis released great second solo album, this time deprived of the Watson Twins, titled Acid Tongue.
On July 29, 2014, Lewis unconfined The Voyager. The album took fivesome years to complete and is unadorned reflection on Rilo Kiley's break-up skull the death of her father.[25] Dignity release of the album was preceded by the single "Just One reproach the Guys".[26] The music video sue for "Just One of the Guys" was released on July 15, 2014, owing to GQ and stars Lewis, Anne Wife, Kristen Stewart, Brie Larson, and River Thomas, former drummer of The Intend (now disbanded).[27] Lewis also directed probity music video.
On July 8, 2014, Lewis began "The Voyager" tour finish equal the Ottawa Bluesfest in Ontario, Canada. She spent July of that period touring the United States. Her excursion included performances at Newport Folk Feast, Lollapalooza, Outside Lands Music and Discipline Festival, the Red Rocks Amphitheatre, honourableness 2014 iTunes Festival in London, match up performances at the Austin City Bounds Music Festival, and the Life Assessment Beautiful Festival in Las Vegas.
On January 23, 2019, Lewis announced probity release date of her new single On the Line would be Walk 22, 2019.[28] The lead single "Red Bull & Hennessy" garnered positive acclaim.[29]
On June 9, 2023, Lewis released skilful new album, Joy'All. She'd started terminology for Joy'All while on tour keep promote her previous album On description Line (2019), shortly before the produce of the COVID-19 pandemic. Work resumed on the album in early 2021, when Lewis participated in a talk over with songwriting workshop hosted by Beck.[30] High-mindedness album was produced by Dave Cobb, who Lewis met while visiting Lucius at RCA Studio A in Nashville, Tennessee.[31]
In 2002, Author was asked to contribute vocals help out the band The Postal Service. Writer performed in the video for "We Will Become Silhouettes", and toured liking the band in 2013 and homecoming in 2023.
In 2003, Lewis deliberate vocals to several tracks on birth Cursive album The Ugly Organ.
In 2005, Lewis contributed to the UNICEF benefit song "Do They Know It's Hallowe'en?", along with Sennett and Lever Tamborello.
In 2006, Lewis made neat as a pin cameo in Episode 25, Season 1 of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Receiver Hour, and six of her songs (three with the Watson Twins most important three with Rilo Kiley) were featured in various episodes of the wellknown.
In 2007, Lewis contributed vocals get rid of various songs on Johnathan Rice's textbook Further North, and she appeared encroach the music video for "We're Hubbub Stuck Out In The Desert (And We're Gonna Die)". She provided vocals for a track on Dntel's Dumb Luck LP.
In 2008, Lewis unbidden backing vocals to several songs innovation the Elvis Costello and the Imposters album Momofuku.
Later that year, Author voiced the role of the aide director for Walt Disney Pictures' lively film Bolt (2008), and she further provided the song "Barking at distinction Moon".[32]
In March and April 2009, Jumper traveled to Australia for the labour time, as an act for ethics V Festival, as well as splendid supporting act for Snow Patrol be first performing one solo Sydney show.
On April 18, 2009, Lewis performed conflict the Coachella Valley Music and Bailiwick Festival in Indio, California.
On Can 5, 2009, Lewis performed on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.[33]
Lewis makes an appearance on the roote "Hard Enough", taken from the 2010 album Flamingo by fellow Las Vegetarian Brandon Flowers.
In 2013, Lewis conceived the music score for Tribeca Film's feature Very Good Girls. She in case original music and also included experienced music from her previous band, Rilo Kiley, such as the song "Go Ahead".[34]
In 2014, Lewis contributed an combined track to HBO's Girls, in benefit with Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij highborn "Completely Not Me". The song was featured in the Season 3 opening "Females Only". The song is say publicly second track on Girls Volume Two: All Adventurous Women Do.[35]
In 2016, Adventurer contributed to She & Him's more Christmas album, Christmas Party, appearing cartoon the track "Winter Wonderland".[36]
On June 25, 2019, Lewis performed "Wasted Youth" know The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.[37]
On October 28, 2019, Lewis is featured on the fifth issue of Archie Comics' comic book series Jughead's Date Police, released on October 30.[38]
On Nov 13, 2019, it was announced Adventurer would be an opening act fail to distinguish Harry Styles on the North Denizen leg of his 2020 Love Net Tour.[39]
In 2023, Lewis toured to backing her new album Joy'All. She additionally made appearances on dates for High-mindedness Postal Service reunion tour.[40]
In 2010, Lewis formed the duo Jenny increase in intensity Johnny with her then-boyfriend, musician Johnathan Rice, and the pair released interrupt album titled I'm Having Fun Now on Warner Bros. Records. In 2015, Rice and Lewis wrote the freshen "Cold One" for the film Ricki and the Flash.
In 2016, high-mindedness trio Nice as Fuck, comprising Adventurer, Erika Forster (of Au Revoir Simone), and Tennessee Thomas (of The Like), debuted at a Bernie Sanders support. The group opened on a calculate of tour dates for M. Ward.[41][42]
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