As Jean Deaux walks the streets of Chicago to get food and make a quick run at CVS, she tells me how she never wants her sound to be predictable.

The West Side Chicago native, who now resides on the city’s South Side, started off performing spoken word at Harold Washington Library’s YouMedia space and eventually found herself hungry to be in the studio. After learning how accessible studios actually were from friends, Deaux told herself that making music “…couldn’t be that hard.” It wasn’t long before the singer and songwriter began developing her own sound and dropping tracks the city soaked up eagerly.

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