Meet Jeudi, “The Vintage-Voiced Chanteuse” and intersectional artist who transforms family stories into timeless performance art. Born into a large Latin family of raconteurs in San Diego, she grew up listening to tales of triumph and resilience while pumping foot pedals on the family player piano, singing along to 1920s piano rolls.
Now, as the family archivist and keeper of traditions, Jeudi bridges past and present through what she calls 'memoryscapes'—atmospheric performances that weave together salvaged jazz, theatrical vignettes, and forgotten musical gems. With her multi-passionate performance background and a voice that evokes Old Hollywood romance, she's dedicated to unearthing lost narratives and lifting spirits through the dual art forms of gratitude and song.
In this conversation, Jeudi shares her unique path following her innate creative calling as a performer…and fulfilling her purpose, as preserver of the family heritage, as her Life’s Art. Storytelling and song have always been the best way way of keeping the heart of our cultures beating from generation to generation.
Here are some of the courageous women she speaks of in this episode, which is ultimately about finding that channel of expression that reminds us at once of our mortality and timelessness in our our experience of the Human Family.
And here are the themes she chose.
(Bonus: here is a little something on Monet’s Waterlilies if you would like to know more.)
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