About this artist
Jennifer Marie Crutchfield, is a Swedish-American, singer-songwriter originally from the north of Sweden, currently residing in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is a female solo artist with a contemporary spiritual, indie pop and urban sound.
Jennifer Marie’s ability to recognize voices and emulate sounds started early. She was exposed to top 40 radio and she loved listening to her mother sing and hearing records by the Beatles, Gloria Estefan, Sade, ABBA, Robyn, Mariah Carey, Whitney Huston, and more. At the age of 14 she started writing her own music. Jennifer Marie has always strived to be an artist with integrity and depth and has been creating and working independently with people she loves for most of her career.
For the past few years, Jennifer has taken the time to reflect on who she is and deepening her spiritual walk, while raising her daughter together with her husband, a video director and music producer. The longing for a slower paced life started after living and working in bigger cities like Seattle, Los Angeles, and New York. Having a family prompted her to want to create more content for children and also move away from the ‘Hollywood glam’ into a more family-friendly environment. Jennifer Marie and her husband Chris, teamed up with another family to help create a music and education channel for children, which can be found under Sticky Rice Stories on YouTube. Now they are preparing to move to the mountains, a few hours northeast of Charlotte, to build a new home and studio to create more music and visual content. Finally a dream coming to fruition, finding land and a space to be able to develop and secure a future.
Jennifer Marie has had over 20+ years of experience in the music industry, working as a solo artist and playing in different bands around the world. Her music has been featured on two hit TV shows Power and Empire and on several radio stations, mentioning four here - 106.1 Kiss FM, Kube 93 in Seattle, and music featured on P3 and P4 Sveriges Radio (Swedish Radio). Jennifer performed ‘Tiden Går’ with Swedish Rapper Ayo on TV4 (Swedish Television). She was also featured as a child, in the ‘80s, on the Swedish television show called Lekande Lätt with host Kjell Lönnå. She has been featured as an artist at Seattle Fashion Week, the Key Arena, The Crocodile, WaMu Theater, the Hard Rock Cafe in Seattle and in Los Angeles, and the Moore Theater for a Michael Jackson Tribute Concert with the Seattle Rock Orchestra. Additional features include the SOB's in New York, the RoSfest 2010 in Gettysburg, the Conference For Global Transformation in San Francisco, the LA County Fair, Seventy7 Lounge in Los Angeles, the Fox Theater in Atlanta, the Sundsvall Music Awards in Sundsvall Sweden, and more.
She also has been seen on NBC's The Voice, Showtime at the Apollo, and on the Swedish annual TV program Melodifestivalen. Jennifer Marie has toured as a backup singer for Lutricia McNeal in Europe, received an award for the best music project when she graduated from college, Musician's Institute in Hollywood, CA. She has also been featured on top spinning EDM records with Higher Self, Tom Budin, and Patrick Hagenaar through Future House and Mixmash with her songs ‘Disarm’ and ‘Work It Out’. ‘Disarm’ was considered a ‘hit song’ and one of the most played songs on Seattle’s own EDM nationwide radio station C89.5 FM sharing the playlist with artists like Audien, Alesso, Sia, Galantis, and more.
Jennifer Marie has also grown up pursuing her career as an actress and has been in many musical theater performances throughout her life including Oliver Twist, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Robin Hood, Huckleberry Finn, and Till Death Do Us Part (a R&B/Soul Musical production). She has been featured in an episode of Dr Reasons on the All Def Digital platform.
Jennifer Marie Crutchfield has been known as an artist under her maiden name ‘Jennifer Newberry,’ and under the stage name ‘SWEEDiSH’.