Sarah Jahn is an American Christian pop singer from Wood River, Illinois.

Biography

Jahn sang in a middle school choir, but did not consider a career in music until she switched to a major in Christian music as a student at

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in the early 1990s. In 1994, Jars of Clay, a band composed of Greenville students, won the Gospel Music Association Spotlight New Artist CompetitionSarah Jahn: American singer/songwriter creates a buzz at Alliance
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'' 41, October 1997. and subsequently signed to Essential Records. Jahn herself won the same Spotlight Competition later that year.Mark Allan Powell, ''The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music''. Hendrickson Publishers, 2002, pp. 441-442. She toured Japan and self-released an album in 1995; after sending a demo to KPNT 105.7FM in St. Louis, she received radio airplay and was included on one of the station's compilations of local artists. In 1996, Jahn appeared on a

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tribute album called ''

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'', covering the band's 1979 song "Yahweh Love". Jahn signed with Warner Alliance and released the album ''Sparkle'' in 1997. The album was produced by

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and includes performance and songwriting contributions from members of Jars of Clay and the group Plumb.Review of ''Sparkle''
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'' called it "among the freshest and most moving pop releases of the year" and "one of the finest pop albums to come out of Nashville in 1997",Review of ''Sparkle'' in ''Nashville Scene'', quoted in Powell, p. 442. while Allmusic described it as "listenable, but unmemorable." She supported the album with a tour as the opening act for Jars of Clay, and appeared at the Alliance Festival in the United Kingdom. A song from ''Sparkle'', "Drinking Water", was a hit on Christian radio in 1998.

Discography

*''Sarah Jahn'' (self-released, 1995) *''Sparkle'' ( Warner Alliance, 1997)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jahn, Sarah American performers of Christian music Singers from Illinois Greenville College people 20th-century American singers 20th-century American women singers