Early Life
Jean was born in Mercy Hospital, San Diego, California to a piano and trumpet-playing stockbroker father and a mother who is a talent manager (John and Lori Carlson), and she lived in Ramona, Valley Center and Carmel Valley. At age 14, while attending Torrey Pines High School,. Jean was already a keen piano player and turned the poetry she was learning at school into song lyrics. She also got inspiration from songs on the radio as well as her parent's music collection, which included artist such as Queen, Rod Stewart and Aerosmith. Jean later became part of a cover band in high school and had her first on-stage experience at the Sahara Cosino in Las Vegas at 15 years of age.
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