Bio for J. E. Laine
J. E. Laine
Doo Wop Singer Songwriter
There is hip new 50s music for today
J. E. Laine is cool, attractive, fashionable, soulful. And she is driven to write, record and perform contemporary music that is inspired by 1950s rock and roll.
She was a teenager during the 1950s on Long Island, New York and believes that, like herself, there are millions of music lovers who long for the special soulfulness of 50s music - and wouldn't it be fun if there were new songs, right now, that would give them that same poignant feeling. That's what J. E. Laine does - her music reflects her fondness for that historical sound.
The dreamy doo wop slow dances My Desire and You Were My First Love - everybody has a first love - and the haunting I'm Sorry are produced by the legendary Grammy nominated Johnny Gale.
The romantic Close To Me, I Swear and Angel Love - the high-energy lindy rockers Just Like Us and It's The Beat- the alluring That Look In Your Eyes and the driving My Heart Can't Take It are produced by the celebrated multi-talented Kevin Tooley.
During the pandemic of 2020 J. E. Laine feared that she might never see some people again. And so she wrote and recorded If I Never See You Again, produced by Ken Sonenberg.
According to J. E. Laine, "The 50s music so perfectly expressed our first time falling in love, falling out of love, heartache, joy - it's always universal and ageless - even when it's about the experiences we've all had since then." And so many of her songs are about the experiences we have all had since then.
J. E. Laine has taken her long lasting love for the rock and roll of the 50s and found a way to do it for today.
She loves writing songs and singing them. And she loves writing books - beachbooks kind of books - mystery and mystery romance novels.
Website address is jelaine.co (co not com)
Bio for JANET OSEROFF
Janet Oseroff aka J. E. Laine
J. E. Laine is the alter ego of many decades music and entertainment business veteran Janet Oseroff. She decided on an alter ego as a fun way to separate her business side from her creative side. Oseroff makes business deals for artists and corporations, has appeared as herself in three major motion pictures - and J. E. Laine writes and records songs, writes books, she is a pianist, aspiring actress and clothing designer.
Oseroff has worked globally in multi-media deals and management of product and talent in music, records, comedy, film, television, radio, digital, live shows, music publishing, books, book publishing - and has been part of trends that became industry standard and culturally mainstream.
She has worked with legends as diverse as Ronnie Spector with whom she was variously co-manager or management consultant with Jonathan Greenfield for over four decades, she managed Soupy Sales, made numerous deals for The Orchard, Chris ‘Animal House’ Miller, Kenny ‘Seinfeld’s the real’ Kramer, Artie ”Woodstock” Kornfeld. She worked with Atlantic Records (Aretha Franklin, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Ray Charles, Dr. John, Wilson Pickett, Roberta Flack, The Bee Gees, Yes, Herbie Mann, AWB, ELP, J. Geils Band, King Curtis, Ben. E. King), TK Records (KC and The Sunshine Band, Betty Wright, George McCrae, Timmy Thomas, Bobby Caldwell, Asha Puthli, Ralph MacDonald, Latimore, Foxy, Gwen McCrae, Dorothy Moore, Anita Ward, Eddie Daniels, Peter Brown), Jimmy Cliff’s management, a Bob Marley album.
She managed Little Isidore and The Inquisitors, consulted for Bachelors III working with Ray Charles, Lou Rawls, Righteous Brothers, Peter Graves Band with Jaco Pastorius, Phyllis Diller, Charo, Della Reese. She consulted for Criteria Recording Studios, and for one of the first rap labels Rojac & Tayster with Lovebug Starski, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Harlem World Crew. She produced a show starring Eartha Kitt which she emceed with NY radio DJ Chuck Leonard, she started her career in 1966 working with Robin Leach and his GO Magazine - and so much more.
Oseroff has appeared in three major motion pictures as herself: 1958’s Marjorie Morningstar; All By Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story in 1982; and the 2015 documentary film The Record Man - and she is pursuing acting. She opened The Rolling Stones’ Maysles Brothers film Gimme Shelter in Europe, the Middle and Far East, she consulted for Aries Film Releasing with films as Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol, Dr. Petiot, The Icicle Thief. She consulted the album release for the Philip Glass-Godfrey Reggio film and soundtrack Koyaanisquatsi for Island Records, and the Caligula soundtrack for Penthouse Records.
She was the renowned Quotation of the Day in The New York Times in 2001 because she caught Verizon trying to deceive its customers. She wrote The Miami Sound Explosion for Columbia Pictures Publications and Chromachron: The Story of Color Time with Tian Harlan both in 1976. She is a member of the august Friars Club in New York City and Mystery Writers of America. She has long been on the board of opera’s The Giulio Gari Foundation and business managed the 2001 Peace Diaries response to 9/11 involving children all over the world which was praised by then President Bill Clinton and the United Nations.
She is writing a show using songs from her New 50s Music For Today catalogue which are published by her Soggy Music – BMI. Her two mystery novels Midnight Song and Blackbird and The Black Flower Murders are published by her Beachbooks Entertainment, Inc. - and she has most of the songs ready for her next album.
Oseroff was born on December 19, 1944 in Deming, New Mexico and grew up on Long Island, NY. She was taught piano when she was four years old by her aunt who was attending Julliard, her dad sang, her parents played records in the house all day and everyone danced, and they all sang in the car – she thought everyone did that. She played the accordion and then drums in her Jr. High School Band, and tympani’s in her High School orchestra. When she heard rock and roll and doo wop, she was smitten to the moon and rode her emotions on every chord change. Music grabbed her heart and never let go. And she loves to play piano bar music.
She loves to write - an impassioned song, a book - she loves to design clothing - and while not everything she does is doo wop, she does say that all of them do have the soul of doo wop. And so does she.
Website address is jelaine.co (co not com)