What is “Cabarazz”?  It’s the best term we could come up with to describe the thing that flows out of Jennifer Lauletta when her feet hit the stage and she begins to move – physically and musically.  It’s a blend of cabaret and jazz performance that seems to find a home in her whole body.  There’s no way she can sing and stay still.  There’s just too much going on inside to keep it in.

Jennifer soaked up the energy and pathos, the broad vocal sounds and the small whispering tones of her earliest influence, Judy Garland, and formed her own dynamics from them.  That’s where the cabaret side comes from.

Add to that her stint in the Kentucky Opera Chorus and singing Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez tunes in coffee houses while accompanying herself on guitar, and the style begins to take shape.  Then, throw in some heavy listening to Frank Sinatra, Barbara Streisand and the Beatles; performing at the MGM Grand and other Las Vegas lounges; forming rock bands, pop bands, anything-you-want bands and last, but not least, 18 years of singing and touring with a gospel trio.  By the time Jennifer came to the jazz end of the spectrum – well, it just became what it is:  Cabarazz.

“It’s nothing fancy – just me,” she says.  “I started young, tried every music style I could wrap my mind around, and what you see and hear now is the product of that slow evolution.  If you’ve got to get into the “dues-paying” thing – oh, yeah, I did that.  But I never knew it at the time I was doing it.  I mean, it was just the life that went with the thing I wanted and needed most – and that was to be performing.  Somewhere along the way, you realize you’ve got your own – just like the song says.  I think ‘Cabarazz’ is a neat word for what I do.”