Background
Jean was born in Mercy Hospital, San Diego, California to a piano and trumpet-playing stockbroker father and a mother who is a talent manager (John and Lori Carlson), and she lived in Ramona, Valley Center and Carmel Valley.
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At age 14, while attending Torrey Pines High School. Jean was already a keen piano player and turned the poetry she was learning at school into song lyrics. Jean later became part of a cover band in high school and had her first on-stage experience at the Sahara Casino in Las Vegas at 15 years of age.
Jean was signed to J Records while working on a debut album with Dallas Austin, The Matrix, Max Martin and others
After signing with J, Clive Davis, The Chief Executive Officer of Sony Music Entertainment, said, "You eagerly wait for a multi-talented new artist to come along like British Columbia Jean. We"re all really delighted that British Columbia has chosen us as her musical home." lieutenant was later announced on October 7, 2011 that the Radio Corporation of America Music Group were disbanding a dozen labels of theirs, including J Records, they said that all artists from those labels, including Jean, were to move and release future material through Radio Corporation of America Records.
Jean released her debut single, "Just a Guy", on September 14, 2010. She also starred in the web-series Talent produced by Alloy television on YouTube as Harper, a musician who travels to Los Angeles in search of fame.
Two seasons have already aired.
