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Jessica Frech
American singer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jessica Frech is an American pop/folk singer-songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee. She gained worldwide notoriety with the release of the "People of Walmart" music video on YouTube.[2] The comedy video features images from the People of Walmart photo blog along with an original score written by Frech.[3] Shortly after release, the video went viral with multi-millions of views.[4] The video has been featured on G4's Attack of the Show!,[5] Fox News,[6] Billboard,[7] Jimmy Fallon, AOL, and MSNBC.[8][9] In addition, it gained the attention of Hyundai which hired Jessica to create two commercials for their 2011 holiday campaign.[9]
On August 20, 2009 Frech released her debut album Grapefruit.[10] The album features six original songs recorded by Grammy-nominated Bart Pursley.[11]
Frech released her first Christmas album Pull My Finger To Hear Jingle Bells on December 6, 2011.[12] The album contains two traditional Christmas songs "Jingle Bells" and "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" along with two originals.
On December 18, 2011 Frech started a Kickstarter Campaign[13] to fund her first full-length album "Reality". The original goal of $8,000 was met in less than 72 hrs.[14] On February 5, 2012 the project was successfully funded by 718 backers pledging a total of $28,938.[13]
Frech joined the second annual national DigiTour for two shows[15] in Houston, Texas on March 15, 2012[16] and Dallas, Texas on March 16, 2012.[17]
Frech's first full-length album Reality was released on March 20, 2012. The album has 12 songs. One track, "I Tried to Die Young", features Melanie Safka.[18]
She attended Belmont University, majoring in songwriting.[5]
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Frech's YouTube channel has over 12 million views.[19]
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Break.com named music video "People of Walmart" as the No. 1 viral video of 2011[20]
Named Hot-Up-N-Comer of 2010 by Woman's Radio[11]
The Independent Singer Songwriters Association 2009 Honorable Mention for the song "Grapefruit"[11]
Placed 5th on OurStage.com for 2009 Folk Song of The Year for the song "Reality"[21]
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