Biography

Hi, I'm Joanna and I don't have much background in music. I took piano lessons in the second grade and played the saxophone in the school band. Garageband has allowed me to indulge my love for singing beyond concerts in the shower. I love the loops because they let non-musicians like me write songs. I just slap a few loops up and start singing. It's so freeing.

My favorite part of songwriting is writing the lyrics. This makes sense, of course, because writing is what I do for a living. Recently, I've been writing books, and teaching an online class in comedy writing, but in the past I've written for television and even wrote a couple of comic books. I'm a former voice actress (talking, not singing), and even spent a few years as a technical illustrator in aerospace. Go NASA!

Without any real training in music or music theory, I approach songwrititing from an instinctual place. If something sounds good to my ears, I go with it. The kind of music I love to listen to is jazz. I love the old school female torch singers of days gone by -- people like Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Carmen McRae, Julie London, Laverne Baker, Peggy Lee, Dinah Washington, Etta James, Billie Holliday, and the Andrews Sisters.

If you want to know more about me, check out my website, my personal blog and my "comic books revisited" blog.

Music rss

Title Genre Released Plays
Dream A Little Dream Jazz Oct 13, 2009 249
Aliens Are Dancing on the Milky Way Jazz Mar 1, 2006 1659
Aliens Are Dancing on the Milky Way (the music video) Music Videos Apr 13, 2006 997
Being Poor Explicit Rock Jul 7, 2006 778
Home on the Range Collab Folk Apr 23, 2008 618
I Got a Water Pistol Named Betsy Blues Mar 16, 2006 890
I Have a Voice Inspirational Mar 30, 2006 732
Bird Jazz May 4, 2006 1465
The Mayfly Folk Sep 12, 2006 515
I've Been Working on the Railroad Folk Apr 2, 2008 1168
Breath Folk Mar 4, 2006 791
Never Feel Alone Folk Mar 12, 2006 657
When He Met She Jazz Mar 3, 2006 1379
The Raven Other Mar 7, 2006 715
The Fool Who Sails Folk Mar 8, 2006 1162
Banana Man Blues Mar 9, 2006 730
It Ain't Fair 45 RPM Collab Blues Mar 10, 2006 1225
Hot Jazz Mar 23, 2006 708
At First Sight Pop May 6, 2006 600
I Can't Play the Ukulele Folk May 5, 2006 630
Concerto for Kazoo in A Flat Miinor Comedy May 18, 2006 746
Stand Up Jazz Sep 5, 2006 771
Isolation Other Jan 8, 2008 324
Free of Pain Folk Apr 10, 2008 502
I've Been Working on the Railroad with Dadai! Collab Folk Apr 2, 2008 843
Condemning Me Just to See Folk Mar 15, 2008 347
It Sucks Punk Oct 14, 2008 372
Who Got Jazz Infomercial Comedy Feb 15, 2009 423
I Love My Ukulele Folk Sep 5, 2009 238
Sailor Boy Folk Feb 22, 2010 108
A Penny For Your Thoughts Jazz Mar 6, 2006 2367
Lament A Cappella Mar 5, 2006 1149
Smooth As Silk Jazz Mar 13, 2006 2105
Love In a Petrie Dish Jazz Mar 2, 2006 834
The Ballad of Billy and Lily Childrens Mar 11, 2006 873
Lullaby For Grown-Ups Comedy Mar 17, 2006 1385
Tyler O'Toole (remix of One Bad Dude) Collab Other Mar 20, 2006 735
The Captain Folk Apr 29, 2006 629
These Tears Folk May 15, 2006 816
Rosin the Bow Folk Jun 8, 2006 884
I Cut My Flocking Finger With a Knife Comedy Jul 9, 2006 764
Never Satisfied Jazz Jul 23, 2006 972
The Gopher's Lament Folk Sep 10, 2006 541
The Nightingale Folk Sep 10, 2006 805
Time Folk Sep 9, 2006 815
The Greatest Show Folk Sep 14, 2006 496
When Monsters Want to Dance Childrens Nov 13, 2006 1131
Seven Men Folk Feb 4, 2007 842
Damsel In Distress Folk Feb 3, 2007 494
Over the Rainbow A Cappella Mar 11, 2007 672
Beat the Devil Blues Sep 10, 2007 470
Nellie G. Jazz Apr 28, 2007 526
The Silly Things I Didn't Do Today Childrens Sep 9, 2007 581
Sleep, My Baby Childrens Dec 9, 2007 488
Hardest Stone Other Dec 16, 2007 435
Kumbayana A Cappella Jan 7, 2008 442
Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey Folk Mar 31, 2008 407
24/7 A Cappella Apr 20, 2008 428
Join the Club Childrens Nov 15, 2008 312
Feeling Moody Jazz Nov 29, 2008 326
Eviction Folk Feb 2, 2009 242
When the Red Red Robin Folk Oct 3, 2009 226

Collaborations

Title Genre Released Plays
Whiskey Neat, Water Back Rock Apr 22, 2006 5693
Bees and Birds Jazz Dec 6, 2005 1634
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Holiday Dec 20, 2007 1177
When Tears Rain Down (a collaboration) Alternative Feb 8, 2005 780
Ain't No Way Other Dec 15, 2005 947
Wine Into Water Folk Nov 5, 2006 2164
Baby It's Cold Outside Jazz Feb 25, 2007 3514
These Tears (Remix) World Jun 18, 2006 1720
Another Gin & Tonic Folk Apr 7, 2006 2549
Invisible Dyad #1 Other Jan 28, 2007 1697
Rainy Day Jazz Apr 22, 2007 2112

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Other songs on iComp March 13, 2006
I joined this site late, so a couple of my collaborations are on here. One is Bees and Birds with Daphna and Mcboy, the other is Ain't No Way with Stun_Nutz
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