Jenn Champion, formerly known as Jenn Ghetto, is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who performs under the name S. She was a member of the now defunct band

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where, in the mid 1990s, she worked selling pizza with future bandmates

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and

Mat Brooke Mathew Etter Brooke is an American musician, best known as the lead singer of American rock band Grand Archives and a former member of the bands Band of Horses and Carissa's Wierd. Early life In the mid 1990s, Brooke worked selling pizza in Tucso ...

. In 1997 the trio moved to

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for a year before moving to

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''(sic)'' ''The Stranger'' - from the December 9 – 15, 1999 issue. She identifies as a lesbian and has done so since very early in her career.

Carissa's Wierd

In Seattle, Champion and Brooke formed Carissa's Wierd, who released three studio albums, the first two on Bridwell's Brown Records label. The band broke up in 2003 and since then three compilation albums have been released. Carissa's Wierd reformed for a one off show in Seattle on July 9, 2010 to promote their "best of" album, ''They'll Only Miss You When You Leave: Songs 1996-2003'', which was released by Hardly Art Records on July 13, 2010. In July 2010, Mat Brooke announced that he and Champion had bought the rights to Carissa's Wierd's back catalogue from Sad Robot Records. He said, "Me and Jenn have been working for a while to buy back the rights to all of our records and we finally were able to get them all back." This should allow all of Carissa's Wierd's albums to be re-released soon.

S

Champion has recorded four solo albums under the name S. Her songs are usually recorded in her bedroom and feature only vocals and guitar. 2010's ''I'm Not As Good At It As You'' featured eleven songs recorded on an 8 track machine between 2006 and 2008, along with "Wait", the album's opening track, which features her former Carissa's Wierd bandmates Mat Brooke (ukulele & banjo) and Sarah Standard (violin). Champion's most recent album, ''Cool Choices'', was produced by former

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guitarist

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and was released on Hardly Art Records in September 2014.

From "Ghetto" to "Champion"

On September 8, 2015, Champion released the following statement on her band's official Facebook page, explaining that she would no longer use, "Ghetto" as her moniker: "Okay so I am changing my name, it's time for me to stop using 'Ghetto.' I chose that as my name when I was a teenager and I realize now that it is not my place to be using it. As I move forward, I want to acknowledge the anti-black racism i perpetuate using the word 'ghetto' and deeply apologize to those that have been hurt by my use of that word. I am changing all internets and other things related to me that I have used the word 'ghetto' in. Unfortunately i am not financially able to repress records that I made under the name Jenn Ghetto. This is part of a process I am in of educating myself and challenging systemic oppression that I will continue to do! All the love, jenn t. champion"

Discography

Solo albums (recorded under the name "S" or Jenn Champion)

* ''Sadstyle'' - Brown Records (2001) * ''Puking and Crying'' -

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(2004) * ''I'm Not as Good At It As You'' - Own Records (2010) * ''Cool Choices'' -

Hardly Art Hardly Art is an American independent record label based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in early 2007 by Sub Pop Records, Hardly Art is run by three full-time employees and is distributed by the Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) and Sub Pop ...

(2014) * ''

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(2018)

With Carissa's Wierd

* '' Ugly But Honest: 1996-1999'' - Brown Records (1999) * ''You Should Be at Home Here'' - Brown Records (2001) * ''Songs About Leaving'' - Sad Robot Records (2002) * ''Scrapbook'' (2003) * ''I Before E'' - Sad Robot Records (2004) * ''They'll Only Miss You When You Leave: Songs 1996-2003'' -

(2010)

References

External links

Suicide Squeeze Records
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