Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Jenni Alpert aka Cami . We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Jenni , looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.
Jenni Alpert (Birth name: Cameron, Cami) Singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, and founder of Fine Arts Revolution Inc that fosters Creative Wellness Programs for unhoused communities, was born in Los Angeles, CA and adopted out of the foster care system at the age of four. She started to sing and play piano while staying in various foster homes. With the encouragement and support of her adoptive family, she learned to play the guitar as well and began writing and record songs early. With her honest rich songwriting and soothing musical melodies, songstress Jenni Alpert’s haunting, powerful, and sultry voice has gained the respect of fans and music tastemakers worldwide. Her emotionally driven songs weave a unique web of eclectic Soul-Americana Pop. As familiar with jazz and Americana as she is pop, Alpert graduated from UCLA in the Ethnomusicology Department after completing a four-year jazz program headed by Kenny Burrell. No stranger to the recording studio, Alpert has released 8 albums and has independently toured over 14 countries with regularity. Upon reuniting with her biological father who was homeless, addicted, and running from the law at the time, yet a musician just like her, Ultimately she guides him out of the legal system and off of the streets becoming his advocate and shadow, adopting him into her life cultivating an inspiring transformation from vagrant to volunteer with the music they share in their extraordinary partnership founded on unconditional love. Meeting and reuniting with her birth father when he was homeless and assisting him with transitioning off the streets and into a life of security with her in their shared love for music with community service as the platform to share their story and songs was the pivotal moment that expanded the trajectory of her music career expanding it into the world of becoming a creative wellness service provider for those experiencing homelessness and those in transition in the world of non profits.
Jenni , love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
Fine Arts Revolution Inc is a 501c3 creative wellness service provider who’s Mission is use the transformative power of music, art, and other innovative hands on creative approaches to improve the emotional and social well being of individuals experiencing homelessness and those in transition. Our wellness services build, strengthen and assist the successful assimilation and reintegration of these individuals while providing impactful support as a partner to the primary services providers. Fine Arts Revolution offers a curated curriculum of interactive and experiential Art of Xpression music arts wellness programs and workshops as well as tailored creative shadow wellness advocacy and mediation services for individuals of all ages and backgrounds with the goal of facilitating safe spaces for creative activities at adult shelters, tiny homes, family shelters, encampments and food banks during mealtimes wait times, and during selected programming windows. The result is to utilize interactive and experiential resources to provide our transitional subjects with the tools to manage and express emotional and social obstacles. Our model has proven that development of key life skills through musical outlets will help to build and strengthen an individual’s self worth and confidence and will focused track their assimilation back into the community. Some critical first steps in our model involve social skill strengthening and identity building. The net effects are significantly lowered stressors and decompression of pre-existing trauma triggers.
Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?
Years after being taken away from her parents as a baby by the state and given up for adoption out of foster care at age four, singer-songwriter Jenni Alpert ‘Cami’ went searching for her birth father. She finally finds him: homeless, running from the law, addicted. And a musician, just like her. Upon discovering her biological father on the streets of Los Angeles homeless most of his life, their reunion story a film team decided to make a short documentary entitled Homeless: the Soundtrack directed by Oscar-nominated, Peabody and Emmy Award winning documentary film director Irene Taylor, produced by Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz about the early stages that unfold the journey of their biological reunion capturing the unique bond they share.
The two performed to share their biological reunion adventures and on creative approaches towards transformation in story and song together alongside supporting the film as a duo under the name Cami and Don, The Biological Duo until his passing. Jenni Alpert (Cami) founded Fine Arts Revolution Inc a non profit organization designing music and arts wellness programs for unhoused communities and those in transition that focus on creative solution solving brings music arts wellness programs in his honor as she currently continues to support a range of non profits like Hope the Mission and Hollywood Food Co, as well as works with adoption, foster care, and the Adoption groups like Celia Center as keynote speaker, performer, and in the field mediator, advocate, and shadow in support of transformation, education, and healing.
If you could go back, would you choose the same profession, specialty, etc.?
Music, art, and theater have always been passions of mine and huge pillars in discovering, developing, and defining my own personal self identity. From foster care homes, to being adopted into a forever home at age four, to finding and reuniting with my birth father on the streets thirty years later and ultimately building a home with together with and for him creatively as an outside of the box model for others experiencing homelessness or in transition using the creative arts and community service opportunities to re define ourselves in society together, offering Don a safe space to transform in his own way with access to resources and a way to utilize them to the best of his ability that he never had before to become the man he never knew he could be, I would say I would change my life path personally or professionally even if I had the option to.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.FineArtsRevolution.org
- Instagram: /jennialpert
- Facebook: /FineArtsRevolution
- Twitter: /jennialpert
- Youtube: /jennialpert
- Other: www.jennialpert.com
Image Credits
Photos taken by Jenni Alpert or tripod of.