Jesca Hoop

Jessica Jesca Ada Hoop is an American singersongwriter and guitarist, who writes and performs in diverse musical styles. She has released four albums, two EPs and a collection of acoustic songs. Hoop worked as a backing singer on Peter Gabriels New Blood Tour in 2011.

Hoop was born in Santa Rosa, California to traditional Mormon parents Janette and Jack Dennis Hoop, and grew up singing hymns and folk tunes with her family in four part harmony. At age 14, her parents separated and two years later she broke away from her Mormon religion. Hoop described losing her faith as Now I feel free of it I have faith in people. Hoop moved off the grid into the rural and wilderness areas of Northern California and Wyoming where she lived under a tree for a summer, in yurts, in cob dwellings, and in a chicken shack that I converted. At the age ofshe was employed as a wilderness survival guide in a rehabilitation program for wayward teens in Arizona. This course involved no camp, we would just walk, for two months. They would learn how to make fire by friction, and the experience was lifechanging. The environment was transforming.

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