Jenna St. Clare
Jenna St. Clare is a Toronto-based singer-songwriter whose mezzo-alto vocals carry the lived-in warmth of someone who has been telling stories for a long time. Born and raised among the lakes and forests of the beautiful Kawarthas, she grew up with space, quiet, and the kind of landscape that stays in your bones. For as long as she can remember, Jenna has written poems, poems which lived in notebooks. Some were already full songs in her head, complete melodies, now they are coming to meet the world one by one. Her music moves between late-night jazz and neo-soul, cinematic soul, blues, soft swing blues rock. One moment her voice is intimate and close, the next it opens up with quiet power, gravel,or emotional force. Her work includes the Forgotten Project (a series of songs focused on overlooked people and housing dignity), alongside other collections such as Feeling Jazzy, Chrysalis, a story album about stepping into your own skin and embracing it, and her cinematic soul releases. She has also founded the St. Clare Project, dedicated to supporting housing dignity and advocating for people who are too often forgotten or stuck. The same values that shape her songs - quiet strength, resilience, and care guide that work as well. Whether she is singing about surviving the storm, the ache of trying to forgive, or the rare love that stays, her music feels like a steady hand in the dark: honest, grounded, and full of hard-won grace.
BooksJenna St. Clare writes the way she sings, with warmth, a long memory, and a feel for what stays with people. Her Breezy Point Adventures series brings back childhood summers and winters at the family's lake place: hikes with paper-bag snacks, too-big boots, cousins, cannonballs and freezing April swims. It's told through young Jenna's eyes, with grown-up Jenna adding funny asides along the way. For younger readers, she creates colouring and SEL activity books that come with music, so kids can colour, learn about feelings and sing along all at once. Her bedtime stories come with lullabies you can read and hear, made for that quiet, cozy end of the day. Her darker side lives in Aetherfall: Tales of Psychological Dread, gothic stories where a mirror keeps the wrong hour, a key fits too well, and the house always knows more than you do. Volume One is out now, and Aetherfall 13 brings thirteen new tales. Coming in 2027 is The Woods Remember, a time-travel novel about a boy who squeezes through a gap in the rock in 1987 and comes out forty years later, in a town that has moved on without him. Whether her books make you laugh, shiver, sing or drift off to sleep, they all ask the same quiet question: what do we carry, and what remembers us?Beyond the AlbumsNot every song Jenna writes ends up on an album. Alongside her jazz and soul releases, she makes music just for joy, for stories and for the people she loves. There are kids' songs full of adventure and silliness, geek songs for fellow fans, and gothic operas written to bring her Aetherfall stories to life by candlelight. There are songs from Breezy Point, like "Little Explorers" and "Hoss," a tribute to her Uncle Ben, plus playful jingles and one-off pieces that simply wouldn't stay in the notebook. These songs show the full range of her imagination, from tender to spooky to downright fun, and they come from the same place as everything else she makes: a love of telling stories that people can feel.
