Jean*Ann cites country music as her earliest musical memory. Growing up in Cleveland, she remembers her dad & his brothers playing guitar & singing Johnny Cash at family gatherings. Religious music was also an early influence as she grew up singing at Church functions during her school years. Moving to S. Fla at the age of 10 opened a whole new world of influences & the result forms who she is as an artist & writer today.
Her music is not so much defined by style as by the passion she brings to each song & performance. Full of energy & personality, Jean*Ann brightens up a room just by walking in.
She took top honors in the Christian category of the 2003 Great American Song Contest. She also wrote & sings the theme song for a weekly series on a worldwide TV network.
She lives in Nashville with her husband & business partner Joe Hand and their mutt Boo, where she continues to write, record, and tour.
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Jeanann Hand
Raised on rootsy country classics and good old rock & roll, Jeanann is more likely to be caught singing than speaking. Songwriting never seemed special to her; she just thought everybody did it, just like everybody wanted to get up and sing in front of people too. Growing up, she dabbled in a lot of different genres and media, until just a few years ago when she unlocked something inside that brought forth the collection of songs she shares here. In her late teens, she discovered the art of recording and has since grown to be passionately in love with both the raw, primal energy of live performance and the intimate, aural-bonzai-cultivation of studio work as well. She's carried a guitar around since she was 14 and will play it if you ask her to. She usually plays it alone, but things change. "Right now it's a pretty black Ibanez AEG10E. I think it likes me."
Jean*Ann will continues sharing her music worldwide. She’s sung in nearly every state in the nation as well as in Canada and New Zealand, performing at large venues like the Mid America Trucking Convention in Louisville, KY and the Orange Blossom Festival in Cooper City, FL as well as at smaller, more intimate settings like the legendary honky tonks on Nashville's lower Broadway.