Background
Jaymay was born Jamie Seerman on January 3, 1981, and was raised on Long Island.
Jaymay was born Jamie Seerman on January 3, 1981, and was raised on Long Island.
Foreign undergrad, she studied at New College of Florida, Columbia University and Hunter College in New York City, as well as Lorenzo de" Medici in Florence, Italy.
She performs under the name Jaymay. After graduating from New College in 2003, she moved to New York City, where she began regularly performing at the Sidewalk Cafe’s Open Mic every Monday night. Jaymay wrote and provided songs and the score to the 2010 film, Happythankyoumoreplease, at the insistence of writer/director/star, Josh Radnor, a longtime fan of Jaymay.
Jaymay provided vocals for the cover of the Kinks" "Big Sky" on ""Orchestral Variations V.01"" by The Separate, which was the final album released by Setanta Records in 2012.
In August 2014, a musical based on the album Autumn Fallin" was produced at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival by Anton Benson Productions. Jaymay"s cover recordings of "A Tombstone Every Mile" and "Dream A Little Dream Of Maine" were featured in the 2014 film, Stephen King"s A Good Marriage.
In December 2015, Jaymay digitally released a "musical advent calendar" entitled Jaymay Sings Christmas, produced and arranged by Daniel Belardinelli and consisting of twenty-five holiday-themed original musical compositions and standards, featuring the City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, the Manhattan Choral Ensemble, Gary Go, and other performers. One song was posted online each day of December leading up to Christmas.
Jaymay has made television appearances performing on "Late Night with Conan O"Brien", "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" and "Colour Room" in 2008, and "Good Morning" in Romania in 2014.
She has been described by the British Broadcasting Corporation as being the "darling of the New York "Anti-Folk" scene", and by the New York Times as a "big name..for the indie universe". Collaborations
Jaymay has collaborated with Kevin Devine on the songs "Brother"s Blood", "Time to Burn" and "Murphy"s Song", with Cheyenne on "Write lieutenant Down in Red", and with Dirty on Purpose on "Light Pollution" and "Like Bees". Jaymay provided guest vocals on art-metal band Goes Cube"s second full-length studio album, In Tides And Drifts.
She is also featured on the My Cousin, The Emperor"s songs "Burly, Old Couch" and "Somedays" from The Subway EPs, Volume
I: Prospect Park West, released March 29, 2011. Jaymay collaborated with K"Naan and was a vocalist on his 2012 European Parliament, More Beautiful Than Silence.
As a baby, Jaymay appeared in The World According to Garp (film).