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19 Facts About Jonatha Brooke

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Jonatha Brooke was born on January 23,1964 and is an American folk rock singer-songwriter and guitarist from Massachusetts, United States.

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Jonatha Brooke has been a performer, writer, and artist since the late 1980s, and her songs have been used in television shows and movies.

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Jonatha Brooke attended Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Commonwealth School in Boston.

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Jonatha Brooke was sometimes grouped with emerging 1990s talents such as the Indigo Girls, Sheryl Crow, Shawn Colvin, and Mary Chapin Carpenter.

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Jonatha Brooke recorded "Jonatha Brooke Live" on her own label, Bad Dog Records.

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Jonatha Brooke packaged and mailed about 2,500 copies and autographed each one for a personal touch.

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Jonatha Brooke was featured as a guest vocalist with artists such as Lisa Loeb, Chris Botti and Patty Larkin, and has co-written tracks for Joe Sample's The Pecan Tree.

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Jonatha Brooke performed two songs on Disney's Return to Never Land soundtrack, a movie based on the Peter Pan story, contributing her original song "I'll Try" and a cover "The Second Star to the Right".

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In 2003, Jonatha Brooke revamped 1995's song "War" as a protest against the Gulf War.

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Some Jonatha Brooke songs have been sung or covered by other artists.

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Buffy creator Joss Whedon enlisted Jonatha Brooke to create "What You Don't Know," the theme song for the TV series Dollhouse starring Eliza Dushku.

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In February 2008, Jonatha Brooke recorded The Works which was her seventh solo release.

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Jonatha Brooke was invited by Guthrie's daughter Nora to sift through the private archives and hunt through Guthrie's unreleased material for possible adaptations.

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Jonatha Brooke was a judge on the 10th and 11th annual Independent Music Awards.

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Jonatha Brooke was a judge for the 5th and 9th Independent Music Awards.

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In 2010, Jonatha Brooke performed as the opening act of the French tour of Nolwenn Leroy, singing songs in English and in French, and joined Nolwenn Leroy for some duets.

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In February 2014, Jonatha Brooke opened in her one-woman play My Mother Has 4 Noses off-Broadway at the Duke Theater in New York City.

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Jonatha Brooke supported the release of the album with tour dates across the United States.

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In February 2019, Jonatha Brooke won Overall Grand Prize in the 15th Annual IAMA, as well as Best Female Artist with her song "Put the Gun Down".