Jen Schwartz

Jen Schwartz is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, film composer, producer and engineer based in London.  She played drums for San Francisco Queercore pioneers Tribe 8, and also played bass for U.K. indie chart-toppers The Wedding Present.  She is also the primary and founding member of Me of a Kind, an edgy-atmospheric alternative rock band that released the album “You Are Here”.

Schwartz has worked with legendary guitar player, Earl Slick (David Bowie, John Lennon, The Cure, etc.).  They released a hauntingly beautiful rendition of PJ Harvey’s “This Mess We’re In” under the Me of a Kind moniker, featuring Slick on guitars.  The single was described as, “a dark and stormy stunner” by Popservations.  Schwartz and Slick wrote and recorded several additional songs together (release TBD) in Schwartz’s Los Angeles studio and The Clubhouse in Rhinebeck, NY.

Schwartz also composed the entire score for the award-winning documentary film “I Am” by Sonali Gulati.  “I Am” chronicles the journey of an Indian, lesbian filmmaker who returns to Delhi, eleven years after her mother’s death, to re-open what was once home, and finally confronts the loss of her mother whom she never came out to. As she meets and speaks to parents of other gay and lesbian Indians, she pieces together the fabric of what family truly means, in a landscape where being gay was until recently a criminal and punishable offense.

Schwartz moved to London from Los Angeles in 2016 and is currently working on new Me of a Kind songs.