Jennifer Chapin is an American singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of the singer-songwriter

Harry Chapin Harry Forster Chapin (; December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981) was an American singer-songwriter, philanthropist, and hunger activist best known for his folk rock and pop rock songs. He achieved worldwide success in the 1970s. Chapin, a Grammy Award- ...

and Sandra Chapin. She serves on the board of directors of WhyHunger, a grassroots support organization founded in 1975 by her father and the current executive director Bill Ayres. She has been compared at times with

Laura Nyro Laura Nyro ( ; born Laura Nigro; October 18, 1947 – April 8, 1997) was an American songwriter and singer. She achieved critical acclaim with her own recordings, particularly the albums ''Eli and the Thirteenth Confession'' (1968) and ''Ne ...

Tori Amos Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full ...

and

Alanis Morissette Alanis Nadine Morissette ( ; born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian and American singer, songwriter, musician, and actress. Known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice and confessional songwriting, she became a cultural phenomenon during the mid 199 ...

. Chapin's website describes her music as "jazz tinged urban folk soul...incorporating the funk, soul and improvisation of the city". She studied at

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

and the

Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music () is a Private university, private music college in Boston, Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern Music of the United ...

. She is also the sixth cousin of country singer

Mary Chapin Carpenter Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958) is an American country and folk music singer-songwriter. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C.-area clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records. Carpenter's firs ...

. In her recent years, Jen Chapin has taken up the occupational role of a high school history teacher, specializing in global history and teaching at a local Brooklyn high school.

Discography

* 2000 ''Live at the Bitter End'' (Purple Chair Music) * 2002 ''Open Wide'' (Purple Chair Music) * 2004 ''Linger'' (Hybrid Recordings) * 2006 ''Ready'' (Hybrid Recordings) * 2008 ''Light of Mine'' (Purple Chair Music) * 2009 ''ReVisions: Songs of Stevie Wonder'' ( Chesky) * 2013 ''Reckoning'' (Purple Chair Music)

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* * Living people Berklee College of Music alumni 1971 births People from Rockville Centre, New York Chesky Records artists Singers from New York (state) 21st-century American singers {{US-singer-stub Brown University alumni Chapin family (show business)