Breathe FREE

About Breathe

Jean Synodinos listens with amazement to the stories people tell her. Those curious single pearls of wisdom, or the full volumes of odd things that just happen to people proving truth is stranger than fiction. In Jean’s case, it’s things like:

-- That humiliating defeat on a nationally-televised game show at the hands of a McDonald’s manager.
-- Those 500 meals of baked ziti consumed in a 2 year span while in a hit off-Broadway show.
-- The 6th grade teacher who suggested she never, ever sing.

Turns out that teacher was just dead wrong. With a voice that’s been hailed as “big league” and “show-stopping,” award-winning songs and accomplished acoustic guitar work, Jean is always out to push the envelope a little bit more with each song and each show. Energetically. Enthusiastically.

With songs that skate between genres, Jean jumps from rock to jazz to pop in order to find the right groove and tone for each song. Known for her dynamic performances, she lives to "read the room" and deliver shows that keep audiences returning for more. But those stories…

“It’s not to suggest that these stories necessarily find their way into songs, but these are the things we all tell each other to break the ice, to get to the next level, to know each other better,” suggests Jean. “Compare a life to a song, and it seems to me that the curious story is the equivalent of the good chorus, while the stuff of every day living, well there are your verses—and that’s the real meat on the bones, isn’t it?”

Following up on her acclaimed debut CD Lucky, Jean has just completed work on, Breathe, set for release in June 2006. Picking up where Lucky left off, Breathe’s eleven tracks groove even harder musically and dig even deeper lyrically. The disc features thoroughbred performances by Charles Rieser on guitars (The Scabs, Boombox), Brad Houser on bass (Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians), and Rob Hooper on drums (Guy Forsythe, Colin Gilmore).

Jean lives in Austin, TX with her husband, guitarist and producer Charles Rieser. A breast cancer survivor, Jean reminds women to get that mammogram! Always kind to animals, she also gardens in spite of repeated failures.

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HERE'S HOW TO SAY JEAN'S LAST NAME:

sin-uh-DEE-nus. It's easy!