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REVERBNATION SPOTLIGHT

Interview by Tim Board

Music by Jenny Vinatieri
“Little Black Dress”

Singer songwriter Jenny Vinatieri, like a lot of musicians, has had a love affair with music ever since she was
a young child. She has been able to use that passion to connect with listeners with her two albums, “Religion,”
released in 2016, and “Phoenix,” in 2019. She is a grand prize winner of the Divine Tracks Song Contest, a
USA International and Unsigned Songwriting Competition Semi-Finalist, ReverbNation Featured Artist, and
selected twice for the IMA Nominated BWH Music Group “That’s Summer” compilation albums. She is also
giving back with her artist development company lyriXchange. Jenny was kind enough to answer a few ques-
tions about her music and career.

Tim Board: When did you get started in music and what attracted you to music?

Jenny Vinatieri: I was in kindergarten, in Italy, where I was born. I had a very hard time connecting and making
friends as I didn't really speak well due to parents speaking different languages. They met in Seville, Spain.
My dad was stationed there while enlisted in the Air Force. He didn't speak any Spanish. They fell in love,
married, and moved to Italy for his next assignment, where I came about. I developed a mixed bag language
of Italian, Spanish, and English and made up words. Music was my escape and became one of my first lan-
guages, in a sense. Good thing I couldn't understand the lyrics, as I was listening to Madonna's "Like a Virgin,"
Janet's "Nasty,” and Ready for the World's "Oh Sheila” and “Digital Display.” I was placed in Special Ed to
learn how to read and speak, and quickly began writing parodies to popular songs, which my teacher placed
in the school newspaper. My love for music grew from there.

TB: How would you describe your music to someone who has never heard of you?

JV: I'm all over the place with my style and genre. This is because I'm not trying to be an artist, but a song-
writer. My music is meant to be a resume. I have ghost-written for rock, country, rap, EDM, and pop. I like to
bring a commercial component to songs.