Looking to her muses of seminal Generation Z storytellers like Phoebe Bridgers, Maggie Rogers, Kevin Garrett and Soccer Mommy, the 22-year-old L.A. native Jensen McRae can comfortably count herself among them. A self-described “wordgirl” (a gender-neutral term, she assures), the singer-songwriter’s confessional and articulate approach to soulful pop is already finding her stories spreading far and wide – with hundreds of thousands of streams from like-minded followers. A bi-racial Jewish woman who grew up in predominantly white neighborhoods, McRae has spent her life navigating through other people’s misconceptions. Her music is a confident statement of her identity in the face of it all.

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