Jane Comerford
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Jane Comerford, lead singer of Texas Lightning
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| Born | 1 January 1959 |
| Origin | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia |
| Genres | Pop, Country |
| Associated acts |
Texas Lightning, New Baccara |
| Website |
janecomerford.de |
janecomerford.de
TexasLightning.net
Jane Comerford (born 1 January 1959 in Newcastle, Australia) is a singer, songwriter, lecturer, and vocal coach working in Germany.
Jane has an extensive musical and music-related education. She studied violin and piano for 12 years, and later music theory, and graduated from Newcastle Conservatorium (where she was awarded her A.Mus.A. diploma). She had six years of classical ballet training in Newcastle as well as jazz dance training in Los Angeles. Further, she went on to study singing in Hamburg, Vienna and Amsterdam, as well as learned to play ukulele.
Having studied piano and violin in Newcastle, Jane was no longer sure whether the classical style still fulfilled her expectations. She went to the United States where she worked as pianist in several night clubs. A holiday in Spain made her stay in Europe.
After she discovered that life in Spain still did not meet her expectations she moved to Hamburg where she worked again as pianist in the bar of the hotel "Intercontinental". There she started to work with several bands and gained more and more experience in the sound studio. She wrote and composed songs, worked in her husband's studio and became popular as a background singer. In addition to that she started to teach at the .
Through a friend Jane was given the opportunity to attend a two-week-long Musical Course (taught by Buenaventura Braunstein). There she met the director Markus Weber who wanted to have her in several of his productions. She played the leading roles Eponine in Les Misérables (in Vienna), Roxie Hart in Chicago (in Dortmund) and Marilyn/Sue in Markus Weber's own musical M wie Marilyn (in Hamburg). Other roles include Angel in The Rink (in Bielefeld) and Dot/Marie in Sunday in the Park with George (in Kaiserslautern).
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