Some call singer-songwriter Jenna Torres country. Some call her Americana. The most apt description of the elegantly expressive artist, however, could be the title of her latest album, All Heart. As a writer who pens songs of hope, heartache, and a life well-worn, Jenna is truly all heart.
Jenna experienced a music-career reset in close proximity to 9/11 while living in New York City. During that time, she found herself sifting through the wreckage of her life. Music had become stagnant, her marriage had dissolved, and she found herself struggling to pay bills as a single mother. Poetically and poignantly, Jenna’s personal ground zero coincided with New York City’s own ground zero.
She recalls: “I took a job working one block from where the World Trade Center once stood. My job was to fill up a building that had been largely abandoned on 9/11. It was 97% vacant, and out of the 60 units, only 3 tenants remained. The rest fled for their lives, in many cases leaving behind their possessions. It was there I wrote songs that I would sing to an audience of angels. Those songs opened amazing doors for me later on.’”
“Wild Thing” is a stirring country storyteller track that touches on the fierceness of femininity.
“The video for ‘Wild Thing’ was shot in NYC while the city was under siege from the pandemic,” Jenna says. “There was a hush that fell on our otherwise alive and busy city… we ventured out in the hopes of finding beauty in the quiet emptiness and we filled the space with love and music…”
