Jane Monheit （出于1977年11月3日）其被認為她那一代最有前途的美國爵士歌手，而與她同時代的其他人更多為歌舞廳或百老匯式歌手，并不能稱為傳統(tǒng)意義上的爵士歌手。 Jane Monheit 出生于美國紐約長島的Oakdale。Monheit在上Connetquot中學(xué)的時候就開始了職業(yè)性的歌唱事業(yè)。17歲，她在 Peter Eldridge監(jiān)護下開始在 紐約曼哈頓音樂學(xué)院學(xué)習(xí)，并與1999年獲得音樂學(xué)士學(xué)位。在大學(xué)四年級，1998年，20歲的Monheit在Thelonious Monk學(xué)院聲樂比賽中贏得了第一個亞軍獎杯。 Jane Monheit被訓(xùn)練的古典的聲音堪比于對其影響十分之大的Ella Fitzgerald。盡管她經(jīng)常被冠以爵士歌手的名號，實際上她音樂形式從爵士到20世紀30-50年代 的音樂劇以及拉丁風(fēng)格的歌曲形式，正如”Comecar De Novo.” Monheit首張專輯《Never Never Land》于2000年10月發(fā)行，并一舉成功。第二張CD專輯《Come Dream With Me》于2001年5月發(fā)行。2002年10月發(fā)行了《THE SUN》。 她的第四張專輯《Live at the Rainbow Room 》在2003年10月發(fā)行，在CD發(fā)行的同時配以DVD發(fā)行。 其第五張專題《Taking a Chance on Love 》于2004年9月推出，在發(fā)行的第一周，專輯就躥升到傳統(tǒng)爵士排行榜的榜首并且進入流行音樂榜單的TOP100. 專輯中的”Somewhere over the rainbow”被收錄于電影《Sky Captain》 and《 the World of Tomorrow》中. At the tender age of 20, New York vocalist Jane Monheit was the first runner-up in the 1998 Theolonius Monk Institute vocal competition, winning a $10,000 scholarship to further her musical education. Judges couldn't exactly place her sound, which blended natural elegance with potent yet impressively controlled presentation, and by 2000 Monheit had joined Diana Krall as one of the highest-touted female talents in jazz. That May she signed to N-Coded and released her debut, Never Never Land. Angelic and conservative, Monheit's structured set of ten popular standards illustrated her still-emerging vocal talents. Come Dream with Me arrived in 2001; it consisted of several standards as well as a few lesser-known jazz compositions. The album wasn't as widely praised as her debut, but her growth as a performer was still evident. Since that time she has released several albums, including In the Sun in 2002, Taking a Chance on Love in 2004, the holiday-themed Season in 2005, and Surrender in 2007.