Background
Batten began to play guitar at the age of 8 when her father bought her a "killer red and blue electric".
Batten began to play guitar at the age of 8 when her father bought her a "killer red and blue electric".
She has released three studio albums: her 1992 debut, Above Below and Beyond (produced by former Stevie Wonder guitarist Michael Sembello), the worldbeat-influenced Jennifer Batten"s Tribal Rage: Momentum in 1997, and Whatever, which was released on Civil Defense and Digital Video Disc in Japan in September 2007 and worldwide in April 2008. She authored two music books: Two Hand Rock (published by Hal Leonard) and The Transcribed Guitar Solos of Peter Sprague. Away from music Batten enjoys creating stained glass art
Her early influences came from The Beatles, BlackBerry King, Lightnin" Hopkins and Jeff Beck.
Batten has appeared on recordings such as Jeff Beck"s Who Else! (1999) and You Had lieutenant Coming (2001), Michael Sembello"s Heavy Weather (1992), Bret Helm"s "Doc Tahri" and the debut of The Immigrants. Her music video appearances include Jeff Beck (Live in Japan), Michael Jackson (Moonwalker-"Come Together"), Natalie Cole-"Wild Women Do", Sara Hickman and Miguel Mateos"s "Obsesión".
Batten played lead and rhythm guitar on Michael Jackson"s Bad (1987–1989), Dangerous (1992) and HIStory (1996–1997) world tours, and on his 1993 Super Bowl half-time performance, which was aired to 1.5 billion people in 80 nations (the largest audience in television history). She was in British guitar legend Jeff Beck"s band for three years from 1999.
Between 1994 and 1999 Batten worked with Dave Rodgers and Domino as featured guitarist on the eurobeat songs "Sun City", "Music Foreign the People", "Fly" and "Woa Woa Woa." Her writing and performing is uncredited in several other songs under the A-Beat C label.
Her live Eurobeat appearances were limited to playing at the Tokyo Dome with Rodgers and Queen of Hearts. In 2010 she recorded a solo for the song "Bad Girls" by Polish singer Doda. In November 2011, Batten was featured on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s series "Joan Armatrading"s More Guitar Favourites".