Jessica Frech is an American pop/folk singer-songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee. She gained worldwide notoriety with the release of the "People of Walmart" music video on YouTube.[2] The comedy video features images from the People of Walmart photo blog along with an original score written by Frech.[3] Shortly after release, the video went viral with multi-millions of views.[4] The video has been featured on G4's Attack of the Show!,[5]Fox News,[6]Billboard,[7] Jimmy Fallon, AOL, and MSNBC.[8][9] In addition, it gained the attention of Hyundai which hired Jessica to create two commercials for their 2011 holiday campaign.[9]
On August 20, 2009 Frech released her debut album Grapefruit.[10] The album features six original songs recorded by Grammy-nominated Bart Pursley.[11]
Frech released her first Christmas album Pull My Finger To Hear Jingle Bells on December 6, 2011.[12] The album contains two traditional Christmas songs "Jingle Bells" and "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" along with two originals.
On December 18, 2011 Frech started a Kickstarter Campaign[13] to fund her first full-length album "Reality". The original goal of $8,000 was met in less than 72 hrs.[14] On February 5, 2012 the project was successfully funded by 718 backers pledging a total of $28,938.[13]
Frech joined the second annual national DigiTour for two shows[15] in Houston, Texas on March 15, 2012[16] and Dallas, Texas on March 16, 2012.[17]
Frech's first full-length album Reality was released on March 20, 2012. The album has 12 songs. One track, "I Tried to Die Young", features Melanie Safka.[18]
