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While growing up, music was the one constant in Charles' life. Her mother was a singer in Washington clubs and her father had a radio show that played jazz songs. Charles studied theater; She appeared in plays and experimental theatre at places like The Studio and The Source. Despite this, music was her one true passion, so she never strayed far from that.

Besides acting, she supported herself with a variety of jobs such as waitressing, working as an artists model, and singing jazz and torch songs in a piano bar.

Elysian Fields were founded in 1995, and have released three albums.

Besides co-leading Elysian Fields, Jennifer also works on other projects. She and Bloedow recorded La Mar Enfortuna featuring renditions of Sephardic songs, described as "among the most accessible records issued in the Tzadik series, but it is poignant and provocative nonetheless, full smoldering passions, broken lives, shattered hearts, and a sense of migration and dislocation." [1]

Cherles has also recorded with Dan the Automator's Lovage project, and with Firewater, turning in a notable performance on "The Circus" from 1996's Get Off The Cross, We Need the Wood for the Fire.

Charles has been writing poetry and short stories since the age of nine. She has studied Classical Indian singing with her beloved teacher Gulamji. Charles also speaks SpanishThis article is about the international language known as Spanish. For other languages spoken in Spain see Languages of Spain Spanish is an Iberian Romance language, and the third or fourth most spoken language in the world. It is spoken as a first langua and loves to travel, read, listen to music, playing chessFor other meanings, see Chess (disambiguation). Chess (from the Persian word Shah is a board game for two players played on a square board divided into eight rows (or ranks and eight columns (or files creating 64 individual squares which alternate in colo, paintingThis article is about the painting of a surface for artistic reasons. Painting is also the utilitarian painting of objects and buildings, often done to provide a protective coating or for aesthetic reasons. One possible process for decorative painting of, as wella s praciticing teaches kundalini yogaYoga meaning union or yoking in Sanskrit, is the primary focus of Hinduism's diverse religious activities. Yoga is a science of the body, the mind, the consciousness and the soul. Yoga is a teaching of wisdom and knowledge which has been transmitted to ma.