Her Story
A British father, a Dutch childhood, and a piano in the middle of it. This is the long version, with the quiet years left in.
She stopped keeping her songs to herself.
Jennifer Ewbank grew up in The Hague, the daughter of British musician Christopher Ewbank, with piano lessons from the age of nine and a house full of The Eagles, Dolly Parton and Eva Cassidy. She reached the semi final of the first season of The Voice of Holland, released a debut album, flew as Tinkerbell above five sold out arena shows, and sang for a King.
Then came the family years, and a long quiet stretch where she wrote for other people rather than herself. Writing a song for Douwe Bob, touring with his band, and hearing an audience sing her words back changed that. What followed was Nashville, an EP, and a decision to release everything she had been holding on to.
She now has more than thirty new songs written, a publishing home at BMG, and a British passport she intends to use.
Sixteen years, told properly.
A video finds the right person
A homemade performance of Hallelujah is picked up by Marco Borsato and shown on national television. Everything that follows starts with one clip and one song.
The Voice of Holland
A contestant in the very first season, reaching the live shows and the semi final. Her first single, Line In A Song, follows.
London Tree
A debut album, released in October. In December she joins the all star Wereldwijd Orkest recording with the Metropole Orkest.
If I Die Young
A cover released as a single that quietly becomes the most streamed recording of her career, now past three million plays.
Flying, and singing for a King
She plays and sings Tinkerbell in the arena production of Peter Pan: five sold out shows at the Ziggo Dome, plus Brussels and Rotterdam. On 30 April she sings the Koningslied at the inauguration of King Willem Alexander.
The quiet years
Family comes first. She keeps performing at events and theatres, tours Japan, works behind the scenes, and writes for other artists. The songs for herself pile up unreleased.
Nashville
A new direction. Footprints and Short Way Home are written with Femke Weidema and Sander de Groot and recorded in Nashville. Country folk, in English, in her own words.
Lighthouse
A duet with her father, Christopher Ewbank. The most personal recording in the catalogue and the clearest statement of where the British half of her comes from.
Footprints, and a tour
The Footprints EP arrives, recorded in Nashville. She tours nationally with Douwe Bob, singing Sailing every night: the first song by an outside writer ever to appear on one of his albums. She wrote it.
Releasing everything
A run of independent singles begins: One Step At A Time, Price to Pay, Scary Movie. Produced with a full band, drawn from a songbook of more than thirty written songs.
Real Deal
Why Would Anyone Fight a Butterfly, Between The Head & The Heart and Real Deal. The most confident writing of her career, and the sound she wants to bring to a British stage.
Britain
Her own band, her own songs, and a tour of England and Scotland. The half of her that has always been British, finally playing there.
The people in the room.
Songs are rarely made alone. These are some of the people who shaped hers.
Douwe Bob
She wrote Sailing for his album, the first outside written song he had ever recorded, then sang it with him across a national tour. The turning point of the whole comeback.
Christopher Ewbank
The British musician who raised her on English songs. They recorded Lighthouse together in 2023.
Femke Weidema and Sander de Groot
The writing partnership behind the Footprints era, built across sessions in Nashville.
Gordon Groothedde
Producer of the current independent run, and the reason these records sound like a band playing rather than a track being built.
The Metropole Orkest
An all star charity recording conducted by Vince Mendoza, early proof that her voice held its own in serious company.
BMG
Her publishing home, and the partner helping open British writing rooms as she moves into the UK.
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