jenni was born in joensuu, finland, on march 27th 1982. that makes her 27, even though she currently looks like she is 12. as a kid, jenni enjoyed riding her bike, playing with lego, riding ponies, terrorizing her sister, and eating bacon sandwiches. at the actual age of 12, jenni decided to play an instrument. she picked the double bass, mostly because everybody else already played the boring piano, or violin, or flute.
jenni turned out to be OK at the bass, and she got better by playing in the school orchestra and jazz band. amazingly, jenni was accepted to the world-renowned Berklee College Of Music, where she took classes in many things including ear training, arranging, music technology, jazz harmony and traditional theory, composition, music history, transcription and conducting. she also studied privately under world-class musicians such as Anthony Vitti, David Clarke, Bruce Gertz, Lin Biviano, Greg Mooter, Daniel Morris, and Fernando Huergo.
much like everyone else who went to college, jenni had to find a job after the studies were done. she totally scored by getting a gig with Melanie C of the Spice Girls, and cruised around with her, playing major pop events, TV shows and club shows across europe for a while. she followed that up with some adventures with Har Mar Superstar, including UK, european and north american touring. fun! a little while after that, Junior Senior called, and jenni answered the phone. together they toured japan and europe, and many fun times were had.
about two years ago, jenni was asked if she wanted to audition for Kylie Minogue's band. she did. everything went as planned, and the coolest adventure of all followed. jenni spent 2008 and 2009 touring the arenas of europe, north and south america, asia, australia and new zealand. too much awesome stuff happened to fully explain here, but if you read the blog, all will be revealed.
when she's not at soundcheck, or at practise, or waiting in line at the airport, jenni likes to do other stuff in her spare time. she plays bass in Correatown, Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits, Jubilee and Eskimohunter. she is a reasonably skilled knitter, intermediate cook, decent baker, general crafts expert, amateur nature photographer, hoodie wearer, movie enjoyer, bike riding afficionado, owl enthusiast, vintage connoisseur, skype user, cupcake slave and sushi addict. she goes running three or four times a week, depending on how she's feeling. her current sneakers are were due to be replaced in july 2009.