Kiss Me Goodbye · Japan, 2016
Two countries.
One piano.
Raised in The Hague as the daughter of a British musician, Jennifer grew up between two languages and one instrument.
Where it starts.
Jennifer Ewbank is a singer, songwriter, pianist and composer with Dutch, English and Irish roots.
Her father, Christopher Ewbank, is a British musician, and the house she grew up in was a house with music in it. She started piano lessons at nine. Not long after, she began training her voice with an opera singer. Later she went to the Sound Academy in Hilversum to learn the other side of it, production and mixing, because she wanted to understand how a record is made rather than only how to sing on one.
The records that shaped her were The Eagles, Dolly Parton, The Beatles and Eva Cassidy. Fifteen years on, that is still audible in everything she writes.
A debut, and a long pause.
The Voice of Holland
She was already recording a debut album when she auditioned. She turned nearly every chair, chose Nick & Simon as her coaches, and reached the semi finals. London Tree followed in 2011.
What the audience did not see
She has since said plainly that the nerves meant viewers met a different singer from the one she actually was. It took a decade, and two children, before she came back on her own terms.
Arenas and theatres
Tinkerbell in Peter Pan, The Never Ending Story. Theatres across the Netherlands and Belgium with Belle Perez. The Koningslied at Ahoy for King Willem-Alexander.
Coming back on her own terms.
The second chapter begins with her writing her own songs, about specific things.
Footprints arrived in 2021 and became the EP of the same name, written partly in Nashville with Femke Weidema and Sander de Groot. Short Way Home followed, then Into the Wild, then Lighthouse, a duet with her father about the person you can always find your way back to.
Twice in that stretch she wrote in Dutch. Tegenwicht came out of her run to the final of Better Than Ever on RTL 4, and De Wereld followed a year later. They join In Zoveel Gelijk and Vuur, from a decade earlier, as the four songs she has released in her own language, and they put both halves of her on the radio at once.
Sailing, and what came after.
She wrote a song and sent it to Douwe Bob. He recorded it as a duet with her on Where Did All The Cool Kids Go, the first song by an outside writer to appear on one of his albums. Twenty six shows followed, and then a deal with his label.
One Step At A Time was the first release under it. Price To Pay and Scary Movie followed. On 31 July 2026 came Between The Head & The Heart, with another thirty two songs written and waiting behind it.
What she stands for.
War Child
Why Would Anyone Fight a Butterfly, on the new record, was written for War Child.
World Animal Protection
An active ambassador. Animal friendly, always.