About > Musician
Jessica E. took a shine to music while attending elementary school in Toronto. Her first instrument was the flute, which she picked up at the age of eleven and continued to play until the age of sixteen. “When I was a kid, I felt drawn to the flute. To me, it seemed like such a pretty instrument, long and elegant,” she says reminiscing fondly. Throughout those years she learned how to sight read and was exposed to the technical side of music. “I adore the language of music. The theory behind sound and time intrigues me,” Jessica E. reveals proudly.
It was during high school, at the age of sixteen, that she first showed interest in guitar. This began a new phase in her life: the introduction to singing and playing at the same time. “With the guitar, I could use my voice to accompany the melodies and chord progressions I created; that was something new,” Jessica E. says with a smile. Her first song was called, In the City, which she wrote at sixteen and performed live with her dad Deo playing piano, years later, at a pub in Toronto. Age of Machines was soon to follow.
Jessica E. has added the piano to her collection of instruments and continues to take private lessons for both piano and voice while still playing guitar.