Jennifer "Jen" Turner is a singer/songwriter musician and producer.

Career

1991–1997: session and touring guitar player

Turner first became popular for her work writing and touring with

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on her multi-platinum album ''

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'' as guitarist and backing vocalist alongside

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on drums and Barrie Maguire on bass guitar. She then went on to play acoustic guitar on the

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album ''

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''. In 1997, Turner was invited by

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to join Soraya's live band on guitar.

1997–2007: lead singer

In 1997, Turner formed the band

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alongside bassist

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, and drummer

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and released their album

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, recorded at London's

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and

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studios. Turner broke from Virgin to form an independent record label, Caboose Music, a subsidiary of the Virgin group. In 2001, using Inner as an alias, she released two records on her own independent record label. Inner's first release was the EP ''Dog Demos'', followed by the full-length album ''Lovetheonlyway'' the year after.

2007–present: band member, producer and engineer, actor

Through the middle of the 2000s, Turner kept a lower profile, mostly working in bands, but not as frontperson. Starting in 2006, Turner worked with Joseph Arthur and the Lonely Astronauts, played guitar in

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's band and joined

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, playing bass and keyboard. Turner produced and engineered the band's 2010 album ''Pigeons'' and ''The January'', a 2011 EP. The same year, Turner and Henrietta Tiefenthaler, both having a weakness for Krautrock, founded Thrillionaire, with

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, Cedric LeMoyne and

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taking part. In 2012, Turner formed

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, consisting of

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as lead guitarist and vocalist, with Jen Turner on bass and vocals, releasing a single on

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' label

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. The same year, Turner played herself in the biopic film ''

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''. In 2015 Taylor McLam (drums, vocals) and Chris Traynor (guitar, vocals) started working on music together. Turner (guitar, vocals), Gabriella Da Silva (vocals), Drew Broadrick (piano, vocals) and

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(bass, vocals) joined in, forming High Desert Fires. They released their first EP in 2015. That year, she joined the lineup of

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for several tours, garnering rave reviews for 'invigorating the band'. In 2012, the British music magazine ''

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'' did a feature on 'dream band line-ups', in which Turner was named as a bass player, one of the only contemporary musicians on the list.

Discography

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'' (1998) ; Inner *''thedogdemos'' EP (2001) *''lovetheonlyway'' (2002) ; Joseph Arthur and the Lonely Astronauts *''

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'' (2007) *''

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'' (2008) ;

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'' (2009), also engineer, producer *''The January EP'' (2011), also engineer, producer *'' A Different Ship'' (2012) ; Thrillionaire *''Wie geht's'', Single (2013) ;

'' *''Pseudo Individual/Mazes'', Single (2013) ; High Desert Fires *''Light Is The Revelation'', EP (2015)

Collaborations/producer/engineer

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'' (1995), guitar, backing vocals *''

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'' (1997), acoustic guitar *''

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– Song Yet to Be Sung'' (2001), guitar *'' Gutter Twins –

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'' (2008), vocals *''

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–

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'' (2008), vocals, and songwriting *''

–

Crazy Rain ''Crazy Rain'' is an EP from singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Joseph Arthur. The 8-song EP was released in the US on April 15, 2008. ''Crazy Rain'' is the second in a series of four EPs released in anticipation for the release of Joseph's ...

'' (2008), vocals, and songwriting *''

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– A Piece of What You Need'' (2008), backing vocals *''

–

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'' (2009), guitar *'' Setting Sun – Fantasurreal'' (2010), bass, vocals *'' Noah & The Whale – Last Night On Earth'' (2011), backing vocals *''

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– In Limbo'' (2012), engineer, contribution of vocals, drums and drum loops *'' Setting Sun – Be Here When You Get There'' (2014), bass *'' Katie Burden – My Blind Eye'' EP, 2014, bass, guitar, songwriting *''

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–

The Glowing Man ''The Glowing Man'' is the fourteenth studio album by American experimental rock band Swans, released on June 17, 2016 on Young God and Mute. It is considered the third and final part of a three-album "trilogy", the other two parts being ''The S ...

'' (2016), engineer *'' American Anymen – Start My Center'' (2016), producer, keyboard, electric guitar *'' Katie Burden – Strange Moon'' (2016), bass, guitar, wurlitzer, mellotron, songwriting

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Turner, Jennifer American women singer-songwriters American women guitarists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people The Lonely Astronauts members Furslide members 21st-century American women singers 21st-century American singers