Gretchen Lieberum is a Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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- based jazz vocalist and song-writer.

Raised in Berkeley, California

Berkeley, California

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, she developed a passion for jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

, funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 and urban beats within the Bay Area scene.

After fronting a funk band for several years, Lieberum released her first solo album, 3am (1998) followed by a record named Brand New Morning (2002), both produced by Greg Porée. Her latest albums, Siren Songs (2005) and When This Kiss Is Over It Will Start Again (2009), were independently released in the United States

United States

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Her song "You Closer" was featured as a sample track on the Sansa

SanDisk Sansa

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e200 series portable mp3 players