About

Vocal musician Mari Anne Jayme (pronounced “high-me”) has been touring the world with The Lt.Dan Band since 2004. Her talent has served in various musical genres and settings, having had such experience as a performer, director, and teacher. Mari Anne has performed with renowned jazz artists George Duke, Bunky Green, the late Joe Williams, Maureen McGovern, Carl Allen, and Kenny Werner; and received top recognition from The Thelonious Monk Institute’s International Jazz Vocals Competition and a residency with Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead Program for Young Jazz Composers. Mari Anne taught Voice at Columbia College Chicago and Jacksonville University, and currently teaches at the North Shore Academy of the Arts and with Transformations School of Integrative Psychology.

Mari Anne received a Master of Music degree from Roosevelt University/Chicago College of the Performing Arts and a Bachelor of Science degree from Western Michigan University. She studied Voice with Sunny Wilkinson and Jennifer Barnes, and sang in WMU's Gold Company under the direction of Dr. Steve Zegree. She is a Licensed Holistic Counselor (RScP), Akashic Records Practitioner, and Reikimaster; and is actively committed to living her Divine purpose through her gifts and helping others to find theirs as well.

“When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.” --John Gardner

"Art-- the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised." -James Thurber