Mason Jennings
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Singer/songwriter Mason Jennings blends the deeply personal insights of a poet, the political broadsides of a protest singer, and the broad musical eclecticism of a jazz musician with the passion and commitment of a rock & roller. The result has made him one of the most talked-about new artists on the acoustic music scene and earned him a loyal cult following, moving over 30,000 copies of his first two albums and selling out shows around the country without the benefit of a major-label publicity department.
Jennings was born in Honolulu, HI in 1975 but moved to Pittsburgh, PA with his family shortly after. When he was young, his father moved to Minneapolis, MN, and young Mason, already interested in music, would occasionally get tapes from his father of bands who were storming the then-fertile Twin City music scene. When he was 13, Jennings picked up a guitar and starting writing songs. Three years later, Jennings decided a career in music was what he wanted and he dropped out of school to move to Minneapolis and work on his songs full-time. At 19, he'd already attracted the attention of a major booking agency and was receiving offers from record companies, but Jennings was more interested in a situation that would offer him creative freedom not a fast influx of cash. In time, Jennings retreated to his apartment and began working on his first album, which he recorded and scrapped four times before he finally came up with a set of songs with which he was fully satisfied.
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