Jennifer Nettles has found many creative outlets to express herself in, including music, television and Broadway and it would make sense that each outlet provides experience that perhaps helps improve her performance in the others.  Jennifer says, “I don’t know that these new [acting] experiences – in terms of the latest projects that I’ve had with acting in Broadway and Coat of Many Colors -I don’t know that they have informed my music, but I do think I went into both the acting and the Broadway in terms of being supported and buoyed by my years of experience on a stage and what it is to play those characters every night for three and a half minutes, in three and a half minute nuggets of songs.”

A lot of singers say performing a song on stage or in the studio is like assuming a role, especially if it is a song that isn’t based on a personal experience.  For instance, while Jennifer is happily married, she’s able to successfully deliver her latest single, “Hey Heartbreak,” about a heartbroken woman who has reached the point where it’s time to stop wallowing and break out of her misery.

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Jennifer Nettles – emotions in music and acting  :28

“I don’t know that these new experiences – in terms of the latest projects that I’ve had with acting in Broadway and Coat of Many Colors –  don’t know that they have informed my music, but I do think I went into both the acting and the Broadway in terms of being supported and buoyed by my years of experience on a stage and what it is to play those characters every night for three and a half minutes, in three and a half minute nuggets of songs.”