Hailing from Wall Township, New Jersey is 20 year old singer-songwriter Charlotte Sometimes (born Jessica Charlotte Poland). The stage name is a take on Penelope Farmers children’s book, “Charlotte Sometimes,” about a girl who time travels into a body of another girl 40 years previous. This name “captivated Charlotte and embedded inside her restless mind the inspiration for detailing her own exploits, into that tentative space between confrontation and escape. The idea that you could actually be someone else—that people often did adopt alter egos, depending on the circumstance—fascinated her.” She is truly an example that hard work does pay off. Charlotte spent the earlier years of her live studying musical theater and writing poems. The stresses of musical theater and feeling like the odd girl in town eventually lead to her becoming anorexic.

At the age of 14, she made a life changing decision and “realized that if I wanted to get healthy, I couldn’t dance anymore, so I stopped it and picked up guitar instead.” It is at this time she started creating melodies with the guitar for her poems. Charlotte says she decided she wanted a career in the music industry, “as soon as she found out what attention was.”

During her high school years, she wrote over 100 songs and formed the local band J. Poland and The Pilots. In 2004, she signed with Crush Management. She also became the subject of a 2004 Elle Girl article about a high school student trying to get a record deal. This goal was only momentarily sidetracked when Charlotte was diagnosed with condylar resorption and had to undergo facial reconstructive surgery.  As a result of this condition, her jaw was wired shut and splinted for several months. During this time though, Charlotte wrote songs for her first studio album, “Waves and the Both of Us,” which was released last May.

The beats on the album are reminiscent of Jason Mraz and Kimya Dawson combined with the lyrical content of Avril Lavigne and The Veronicas.  The first single “How I Could Just Kill A Man,” is gaining much commercial success and is being played on radio stations across the nation as well as VH1 and MTV. This summer Charlotte toured the United States on the Vans Warped Tour and this fall she is heading out on the road with Gavin Degraw. She is signed to Geffen Records and is label mates with the likes of Ashlee Simpson, Kate Nash, Macy Gray, and Nelly Furtado.

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