Vocal Coach - Jennifer John

Liverpool Idol contestants will all receive vocal coaching from Jennifer John, Artistic Director & Sense of Sound Choir Manager.

Jennifer John is a singer/songwriter originally from London but now based in Liverpool, where she has lived since the early 1980s. From the age of around 6 until she left school at 18 she attended the Newham Academy of Music, were she studied among other things violin and piano and where she was given the opportunity to sing in various choirs.

She is one of four artistic directors of Sense of Sound a training organisation that specialises in vocal coaching and which has been in operation since 1991. She holds the award for Business Woman of the Year for Arts and Culture given by the European Federation of Black Women Business Owners.

She has lectured at Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA), performed on stage with George Michael and Elton John and sung backing vocals for Ray Lamontagne. She also worked with Damon Albarn on his opera, Monkey; A Journey to the West.

She also manages a choir of 40 a cappella singers called Sense of Sound who were finalists in the BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year competition in 2006 and BBC1’s Last Choir Standing in 2008. They have performed at the Barbican alongside Pink Floyd, Damon Albarn, Martha Wainwright and Chrissie Hynde and are currently the featured choir on Russell “THE VOICE” Watson’s national UK tour.

Her musical tastes are hugely varied from Stevie to Chopin; Bulgarian traditional folk singing to Prince; Joan Armatrading to Penguin Café Orchestra and everything in between.