Jessica Latshaw

Jessica Latshaw can’t quite decide if she is a musician who can’t stop dancing or a dancer who is completely in love with music. She will probably take the rest of her life figuring this out, and she is okay with this. Having been lucky enough to perform on stages across America, Canada, Japan, and Korea--while either telling someone else’s story in a Broadway show, or telling her own through the music that she writes--she still hasn’t run out of things to say. And she still feels grateful to the people who listen. Jessica started out singing her own songs at an early age. To her animals. Of which there were many in rural Pennsylvania where she grew up. The horses, dogs, cats, goats, chickens, and occasional cow seemed to enjoy her songs enough to encourage her to move on to singing in front of people. And once she did, it was game over. Cause she was smitten by the way people listened; by the symbiotic relationship between a live performer and the audience. Most people are a little surprised by the way Jessica sounds. This might be because she raps. As well as sings. Or maybe it’s because she has some classical sensibilities mixed in there, too, just in case you thought you had her pegged. She’s happy to accompany herself on the piano, but the recent purchase of a ukelele has made her music four strings richer. Poignant, evocative lyrics, paired with melodies that stick gives people pause when she plays. Or it could be the tutu that she wears sometimes. What else would a dancer wear to play a gig? Which brings us back to the first question as to what, exactly, she is--dancer? Singer? As long as she keeps figuring it out by taking it to the stage, singing her songs and sharing her story, nobody really cares.