When Jana Jae Was A Toddler, a tiny, 1/8 size violin was slipped into her hands, and a music career was born. With Julliard-trained parents, a grandfather who was a champion fiddler, and a pianist grandmother, Ms. Jae dived into classical study, and long before she learned to read and write, she was playing music by ear.
"By ear" basically sums up how Jana has experienced her thriving career as a classical and country fiddler, crossing over genres "from Bach to blugrass." A lifelong Christian Scientist based in Oklahoma, she's been able to hold up permanent spiritual laws against the more unreliable theories that say aggressive agents, savvy managers, and a big dose of good luck are how things "happen" in the music industry.
I prayed with the idea of identity, holding to the fact that I didn't have many identities, mortal and immortal, musician and single mother, at the mercy of events and circumstances.
