Jessi Teich

Jessi Teich masterfully mixes jazz sophistication, blues grit, and soul’s tragic romance, with an edgy-but-elegant aesthetic that fluidly seeps into her music and fashion sensibilities. She’s garnered favorable comparisons to Amy Winehouse, Adele, Sade, Fiona Apple, Billie Holiday, and Sarah Vaughan. No wonder JESSI TEICH (pronounced TEACH), the Jersey girl who landed in Philly after graduating Magna Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music, is commonly considered an old blues, jazz, and soul singer-songwriter trapped in a young woman’s body. Hence, the pop sensibility found on her stylish new album, TWISTED SOUL (Madame Freak Records), recorded in Paris – yes, Paris – with a sequenced “poperatic” storyline of overcoming tragedy through change and growth. The album not only showcases Jessi’s sinuous vocal prowess, but the heralded songwriting capacity which has earned her 10 international awards, three of which are for songs on TWISTED SOUL. She writes impressionistically about heartbreak, love, loss, gain, and sisterhood on the album, shedding the darkness she bore from surrendering her soul to a controlling lover by finding the liberating strength to regain her self-worth.