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• Singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop's debut album, Kismet, was released in April of 2007. She was labeled by The Los Angeles Times as one of the Ten Notable Southern California musicians of that year.

• Fast Facts:

  1. Born in 1975 in Southern California
  2. Former nanny for Tom Waits
  3. Drummer Stewart Copeland featured on track "Seed of Wonder"

• Biography

  Hoop was raised by strict Mormon parents in Sonoma County, California Her mother trained her to sing opera and choral music from a young age. She worked as a counselor at a rehabilitation program for children in the mountains of Arizona before getting a job as a nanny for the children of Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan.

  Waits got a demo of Hoop's song "Seed of Wonder" to DJ Nic Harcourt at Los Angeles' KCRW radio station, which in turn launched Hoop's career. After releasing the EP Silverscreen Demos, Hoop signed a record deal with Columbia Records and recorded her full-length debut, Kismet, in 2007. She has since toured the country, playing shows with The Polyphonic Spree and other bands.

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