Jenna Raine

A onetime member of preteen pop group L2M, Jenna Raine went solo in 2018 with the poignant relationship song “Us.” Following the next year’s debut EP, Nen, she made her major-label solo debut with another earnest ballad, “See You Later (Ten Years).” Released in September 2021, it garnered tens of millions of streams by the arrival of a remix featuring JVKE early the following year.
Jenna Raine Simmons grew up in Westlake, Texas, where her parents started her on voice lessons after she impressed at a school talent show with her performance of Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” in the third grade. At the recommendation of a family friend, she trained at Septien Entertainment Group in Dallas and was eventually cast as one of the preteen singing voices for the 2016 animated movie LEGO Friends: Girlz 4 Life, with Mariangeli Collado, Lexi Drew, Mckenzie Mack, and Tati McQuay. The girls formed the spin-off group L2M (“Listening to Music”), which released songs from the movie through Warner Bros., starting in January 2016 with “Girlz,” an anthem written and produced by Soulshock, who had previously created hits with Monica, Whitney Houston, Usher, and JoJo, among others. The similarly upbeat and confident songs “Incredible,” “B.E.A.T.,” and “Living for the Rhythm” were released as singles into early 2017. This primed L2M for Hyperlinked, a live-action web series in which the girls starred as web designers and coders.
With her bandmates also pursuing solo opportunities, Simmons released her first solo single, “Us,” as Jenna Raine in October 2018. Featuring songs co-written by Simmons, singer/songwriter Candice Pillay, and composer/producer Edgar Vargas (In Real Life, Bad Bunny), the personal EP Nen (named from childhood nickname “Nenna”) followed in January 2019. Later that year, she opened tours for Max & Harvey and In Real Life (winners of ABC TV’s Boy Band).
Jenna Raine had her biggest solo streaming success yet with the ballad “See You Later (Ten Years),” which marked her debut on Warner Records in September 2021. It was followed in early 2022 by a remix of the song featuring JVKE. ~ Marcy Donelson