Jesca Hoop

Born in Santa Rosa, California, Jesca Hoop has been developing since the early 2000s a body of work that moves between folk, pop, blues, jazz and experimental approaches, with a marked attention to vocal harmonies and sometimes atypical structures. Raised in a Mormon environment where communal singing played an important role, she settled in Los Angeles and began to attract attention when the track «Seed of Wonder» was aired on KCRW, the starting point of her initial visibility on the local independent scene. Her debut album, Kismet, was released in 2007. After moving to Manchester in 2008, Jesca Hoop continued her evolution with Hunting My Dress (2010) and The House That Jack Built (2012), in a register where acoustic folk dialogues with more angular songwriting and a pop sensibility. She later revisited parts of her repertoire on The Complete Kismet Acoustic (2013) and Undress (2014). In 2011, Jesca Hoop took part as a backing vocalist on Peter Gabriel’s New Blood tour. Her collaboration with Sam Beam of Iron & Wine resulted in Love Letter for Fire in 2016. Jesca Hoop subsequently released Memories Are Now (2017), Stonechild (2019) and Order of Romance (2022), confirming a trajectory shared between American and British folk scenes.