Jan Garrett is a jazz singer with a poet’s soul.  A native of Colorado and a lifelong musician, she is a wilderness vision quester, creativity guide, and certified laughing instructor who teaches with a twinkle and inspires by example. Jan’s songs have won multiple awards in the world of positive music, and have been arranged and published by a Canadian choral music company.  Her tune “Tenderly Calling” was recorded by John Denver and the legendary bluegrass band Hot Rize, and was featured in a PBS documentary.

In her colorful musical past Garrett recorded and toured with John Denver and Steve Martin (when he was still doing stand-up) and appeared on the Tonight Show.  She joined the Dirt Band for their historic 1977 Soviet Tour. (The Russians, starved for American music and Levi’s, treated them like the Beatles.)  As if this weren’t enough of a thrill, she was later listed in the Rolling Stone “Who’s Who in Rock & Roll.”  Guided by her Indian guru, and a fine sense of humor, she practiced meditation through it all.

Jan and her husband, acclaimed songwriter JD Martin, have co-written and produced 7 CDs of original songs, described as….“rich and intelligent, a feast of musical endorphins, universally inclusive and uplifting….a velvet hammer wake-up call, as satisfying to the soul as they are to the ear, music to open the heart and refresh the spirit.”  It has taken them years to memorize that.  When they are not touring, Jan and JD are grateful to be living and creating their music in the mountains of Colorado near Aspen. Their twin daughters live down the road.