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Infobox musical artist| name = Jennifer Batten| image = Jennifer Batten.jpg| caption = Batten on stage in 2010| image_size =| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_name =| birth_date = birth date and age|1957|11|29| birth_place = New York City , New York , United States | death_date =| instrument = Guitar , guitar synthesizer | genre = Instrumental rock , jazz fusion , hard rock , electronica | occupation = Musician , songwriter , record producer|producer , filmmaking|filmmaker , visual arts|visual artist | years_active = 1980–present| label = Voss, East West Records|East West , Lion Music|Lion | associated_acts = Michael Jackson , Jeff Beck | website = http://www.jenniferbatten.com/ jenniferbatten.com| notable_instruments = Washburn Guitars|Washburn JB-100 Parker Guitars|Parker Bronze Fly Line 6 (company)|Line 6 JTV-69 Variax Jennifer Batten (born November 29, 1957) is an United States|American guitarist , who has worked as both a session musician and solo artist. She has released three studio albums: her 1992 debut, Above Below and Beyond , was produced by former Stevie Wonder guitarist Michael Sembello . In 1997, she released the worldbeat -influenced '' Jennifer Batten's Tribal Rage: Momentum . Her third album, Whatever (Jennifer Batten album)|Whatever , was released in Japan in September 2007 and the U.S. on April 18, 2008.
Batten has appeared on recordings such as Jeff Beck 's Who Else! (1999) and You Had It Coming (2001), Carmine Appice 's GuitarZeus (1995), Michael Sembello 's Heavy Weather (1992), Carl Anderson (singer)|Carl Anderson 's Sunlight Again (1994), Cindy Cruz's debut, Public Image bassist Bret Helm's "Doc Tahri" and the debut of The Immigrants. Her music video appearances include Jeff Beck, Michael Jackson, Natalie Cole and Sara Hickman and Miguel Mateos 's "Obsesión".
Batten played lead guitar|lead and rhythm guitar on Michael Jackson 's Bad World Tour|Bad ( 1987 ), Dangerous World Tour|Dangerous ( 1992 ) and HIStory World Tour|HIStory ( 1996 ) world tours, as well as his Super Bowl XXVII#Halftime show|1993 Super Bowl half-time performance.
Between 1994 and 1999 Batten joined Dave Rodgers and Alessandra Mirka Gatti|Domino as featured guitarist on the eurobeat songs "Sun City", "Music For the People", "Fly" and "Woa Woa Woa." Her writing and performing is uncredited in several other songs under the A-Beat C label.Citation needed|date=July 2009Her live Eurobeat appearances were limited to playing at the Tokyo Dome with Dave Rodgers and Queen of Hearts.
In 2010 she recorded a solo for the song "Bad Girls" for a Polish singer Doda (singer)|Doda .
http://www.thecoverzone.com/RantsNRaves/batten.html The Cover Zone interview
Persondata | NAME = Batten, Jennifer | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = November 28, 1957 | PLACE OF BIRTH = New York City , New York , United States | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Batten, Jennifer Category:American female guitarists Category:American rock guitarists Category:Living people Category:1957 births
