Jen Sygit’s music is a good blend of acoustic and folk. Jen is from Port Huron, Michigan and grew up in the small town of Marysville. Throughout her life, Jen has always had a strong love of music and musical instruments. During elementary, middle, and high school Jen could be found writing songs at any time throughout the day and playing them in her parent’s basement on their beat up organ.
Seeing her gift with music, her parents encouraged Jen to audition for the Interlochen Fine Arts Camp in Interlochen, MI. Jen was accepted and spent several years at the camp studying voice, visual arts, piano, and trombone. Interlochen is an outstanding music camp which has creative writing, dance, motion picture arts, music, theatre, visual arts, and academics. It’s quite an accomplishment to be accepted into the school and to study there.
In 1999, in order to attend Michigan State University, Jen moved to Lansing. She quickly surveyed the area and the musical scene that it had. She scoped out the top blue jams and open mics in the neighborhood; and soon enough had her first gig. She started out as a front woman for a band called Murdawg who played more blues-rock music.
During her time with Murdawg, Jen started working at Elderly Instruments; a world-renowned music store in Lansing. Most of the workers at Elderly Instruments are musicians so it was a perfect opportunity for Jen to make some money as well as to expand her knowledge of music and instruments. She worked there for three years and Jen enhanced her acoustic sound as well as learning how to work and play other instruments.
Jen has come a long way from playing the organ in her basement, and now has three albums, Here to There, So Long Pollyanna, and Leaving Marshall St. Jen is a well-known local at Dagwood Tavern in Lansing and has been performing there for a good five years. At this point, Jen is part of a band called Stella! They have been working on their new album in Brooklyn, NY. Stella! is a 4 person band consisting of Jo Serrapere, Tahmineh Guermany, Katie Grace and Jen Sygit.
Stella! has performed on Dave Marsh’s Sirius/XM show, ‘Kick out the Jams’. So Long Pollyanna was also played on the show.
Jen Sygit has come a long way since her childhood and is planning on a long continued career in the music industry.
