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Singers · b. 1978

Esthero

Canadian singer

Born: 23 December 1978
Stratford
Country: Canada
Active: 1997–
Record labels: Sony Music

Biography

Esthero is a jazz musician who plays voice. Esthero was born on 23 December 1978 in Stratford. The music is usually filed under jazz and trip hop. Record labels: Sony Music.

Esthero ( es-TERR-oh; born Jenny-Bea Englishman on December 23, 1978) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who lives in Los Angeles, California. The name Esthero refers both to the singer and formerly to the two-person team of herself and producer Doc McKinney. Esthero is a portmanteau of "Esther the hero"; she claims to have gotten the name by combining the name of the heroine (Esther) and last line ("If I am to be the hero, then I cannot fly from darkness") of the film from Sylvia Plath's only novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Esthero's sound characteristically features her voice over a mix of mellow bass lines, jazzy trumpets, classical guitar and hip-hop. She is sometimes compared to artists Björk, Portishead, Billie Holiday, and Sade. She has co-produced the majority of the material she performed. Later female artists who count Esthero among their influences include Res, Fergie and fellow Canadian Nelly Furtado.

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