Jane Monheit （出于1977年11月3日）其被认为她那一代最有前途的美国爵士歌手，而与她同时代的其他人更多为歌舞厅或百老汇式歌手，并不能称为传统意义上的爵士歌手。Jane Monheit 出生于美国纽约长岛的Oakdale。Monheit在上Connetquot中学的时候就开始了职业性的歌唱事业。17岁，她在 Peter Eldridge监护下开始在纽约曼哈顿音乐学院学习，并与1999年获得音乐学士学位。在大学四年级，1998年，20岁的Monheit在Thelonious Monk学院声乐比赛中赢得了第一个亚军奖杯。Jane Monheit被训练的古典的声音堪比于对其影响十分之大的Ella Fitzgerald。尽管她经常被冠以爵士歌手的名号，实际上她音乐形式从爵士到20世纪30-50年代的音乐剧以及拉丁风格的歌曲形式，正如”Comecar De Novo.”Monheit首张专辑《Never Never Land》于2000年10月发行，并一举成功。第二张CD专辑《Come Dream With Me》于2001年5月发行。2002年10月发行了《THE SUN》。她的第四张专辑《Live at the Rainbow Room 》在2003年10月发行，在CD发行的同时配以DVD发行。其第五张专题《Taking a Chance on Love 》于2004年9月推出，在发行的第一周，专辑就蹿升到传统爵士排行榜的榜首并且进入流行音乐榜单的TOP100.专辑中的”Somewhere over the rainbow”被收录于电影《Sky Captain》 and《 the World of Tomorrow》中. At the tender age of 20, New York vocalist Jane Monheit was the first runner-up in the 1998 Theolonius Monk Institute vocal competition, winning a $10,000 scholarship to further her musical education. Judges couldn't exactly place her sound, which blended natural elegance with potent yet impressively controlled presentation, and by 2000 Monheit had joined Diana Krall as one of the highest-touted female talents in jazz. That May she signed to N-Coded and released her debut, Never Never Land. Angelic and conservative, Monheit's structured set of ten popular standards illustrated her still-emerging vocal talents. Come Dream with Me arrived in 2001; it consisted of several standards as well as a few lesser-known jazz compositions. The album wasn't as widely praised as her debut, but her growth as a performer was still evident. Since that time she has released several albums, including In the Sun in 2002, Taking a Chance on Love in 2004, the holiday-themed Season in 2005, and Surrender in 2007.