JAKI BLUE is an emerging artist based in Minneapolis who writes Folk-R&B/Alt-Pop songs that flow like confessions from the subconscious. Raised by adoptive parents, she always felt something was missing until meeting her birth mother at age 20. During that reconnection, her mother gifted her a ukulele and revealed her own life as an accomplished violinist. This exchange unlocked JAKI’s inherent musical voice and reshaped her life’s purpose. From that moment forward, creating music became her path.

A lifelong poet, JAKI’s songwriting is instinctive through freestyle and meditation, with words and melodies surfacing like fragments of dreams. Her sound draws on gospel roots and influences like Etta James, Lauryn Hill, Stevie Nicks, and Amy Winehouse. All artists who showed her how to make vulnerability both beautiful and unflinching.

Her new single “September Rain” sets the tone. It’s a haunting ballad about cycles of shame, identity, and self-sabotage that return time and time again. While rooted in her own inner battles, the song invites multiple interpretations. With lyrics like “I’ve always wanted to be unchained, but I never wanted to be ashamed,” JAKI BLUE confronts the weight of shame and the longing for freedom, framing the song as both a personal struggle and a universal one. Just as easily, it could be heard as a love song—about a relationship that never fully begins or ends, suspended between yearning and unfulfillment.

Adding another layer of meaning, the song closes with an arrangement of haunting violins played by JAKI’s birth mother, making “September Rain” not just a meditation on cycles, but also a bridge between generations, identity, and reconciliation. This release signals the beginning of a new era for JAKI BLUE. One where vulnerability is no longer hidden, but transformed into her most powerful form of truth.