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`!Jennifer Chapin`! is an American singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of the singer-songwriter `F33f`_`[Harry Chapin`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Harry_Chapin]`_`f and `F33f`_`[Sandra Chapin`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Sandra_Chapin]`_`f. She serves on the board of directors of `F33f`_`[WhyHunger`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=World_Hunger_Year]`_`f, a grassroots support organization founded in 1975 by her father and the current executive director `F33f`_`[Bill Ayres`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Bill_Ayres]`_`f. She has been compared at times with `F33f`_`[Laura Nyro`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Laura_Nyro]`_`f, `F33f`_`[Tori Amos`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Tori_Amos]`_`f and `F33f`_`[Alanis Morissette`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Alanis_Morissette]`_`f.`:cite-ref-1[`F5bf`_`[1`#cite-note-1]`_`f]

Chapin's website describes her music as "jazz tinged urban folk soul...incorporating the funk, soul and improvisation of the city".`:cite-ref-official-site-2-0[`F5bf`_`[2`#cite-note-official-site-2]`_`f]

She studied at `F33f`_`[Brown University`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Brown_University]`_`f and the `F33f`_`[Berklee College of Music`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Berklee_College_of_Music]`_`f. She is also the sixth cousin of country singer `F33f`_`[Mary Chapin Carpenter`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Mary_Chapin_Carpenter]`_`f.

In her recent years, Jen Chapin has taken up the occupational role of a high school history teacher, specializing in global history and teaching at a local Brooklyn high school.

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• `F0af`_`[Discography`#discography]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[References`#references]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[External links`#external-links]`_`f

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>>Discography

• 2000 `*Live at the Bitter End`* (Purple Chair Music)

• 2002 `*Open Wide`* (Purple Chair Music)

• 2004 `*Linger`* (Hybrid Recordings)

• 2006 `*Ready`* (Hybrid Recordings)

• 2008 `*Light of Mine`* (Purple Chair Music)

• 2009 `*ReVisions: Songs of Stevie Wonder`* (`F33f`_`[Chesky`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Chesky_Records]`_`f)

• 2013 `*Reckoning`* (Purple Chair Music)

>>References

`:cite-note-1`!1.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-1]`_`f `:citerefmetzger2004`aMetzger, John (March 2004). "Jen Chapin, `*Linger`*". `*The Music Box`*. `!11`! (3). Retrieved 27 May 2010.

`:cite-note-official-site-2`!2.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-official-site-2-0]`_`f "Jen Chapin". `*Jen Chapin Official Website`*. 2010. Retrieved 27 May 2010.

>>External links

• Media related to Jen Chapin at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website

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