Jeanne's Way
Jeanne Ricks is described as a singer with a “smoky soulfulness” (New Entertainment Weekly Magazine), but her talents don’t stop there. As a composer, she has actualized a myriad of impressive accomplishments that would have taken some a lifetime to achieve. Famed Guitarist George Benson selected Jeanne’s ‘Love Remembers’ for the title track of his Warner CD; Anita Pointer chose ‘Thorny Rose’, ‘Always’, and ‘Stronger than Pride’ for her upcoming CD; Chaka Khan recorded ‘Don’t Ask Me’ for a WEA release; and Tony Ransom recorded ‘Take It To Heart’ and ‘Turn To Me’ for his Expansion/EMI solo album. Jeanne lends background vocals to two of Steve Coleman’s tracks on his groundbreaking CD The Sonic Language of Myth [RCA/Victor].
Listening Room, is Jeanne’s first solo CD with the help of a few friends like Branford Marsalis, Lisa Fischer, Darryl Tookes and Hubert Eaves III lending their talents to her music which she wrote, produced and mixed under the Rickso Facto Music Label under her artistic pseudonym, “Jenjii”.
Jeanne is a native of Chicago.