Jessica Charlotte Poland(born January 15, 1988), better known by thestage nameCharlotte Sometimes, is anAmericansinger-songwriterbased out ofNew Yorkand currently signed toGeffen Records. Her debut album was released on May 6, 2008 and is titledWaves and the Both of Us. She grew up inWall Township, New Jerseyand started playing guitar and writing songs at the age of 14. On May 14, 2010 she self-released the EPSideways.Charlotte was adopted by her parents, Hartson and Tracy Poland, as a baby. She was introduced to her birth mother at age 13. She has lived in Wall Township all her life.She got her stage name from a children’s book,Charlotte Sometimes, written in 1969 by Penelope Farmer, about a boarding school student who finds herself transported 40 years into the past, into the place of another girl.