title: Get Paid To Sing: The singer's guide to making a living making music
author: Jennifer Truesdale
description: Jennifer Truesdale is a singer, songwriter, vocal coach and music career coach in Boston, Massachusetts. A graduate of Berklee College of Music and a 20+ year veteran of the music industry, she has performed thousands of shows with many of the top musicians on the East Coast and has sung on countless recordings. As a professional vocal coach and music career coach she has worked with hundreds of singers, helping each to achieve their own personal goals. Jennifer is a published songwriter, who has written, produced and performed on recordings for major network television shows including: All My Children, Soul Food, Melrose Place, Sunset Beach, One Life To Live and The Young and the Restless. As a member of the Rounder Records marketing and promotional team Jennifer earned gold and platinum albums and had the opportunity to work with such amazing artists as Alison Krauss, Susan Tedeschi, Roomful of Blues, Irma Thomas and many, many others. A huge supporter of music programs in public schools, Jennifer is Co-Director of Chick Singer Night Boston (www.chicksingernight.com) a nationally recognized performance series for women that helps to raise money for music programs in Boston area schools.
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  **Wedding Singer**
  
  **Volume I**
  
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  > Written By Lisa Marie Williams
  
  (BBA, M.Ed,
  
  PH.D-Organizational Leadership (in Progress)
  
  > How To Make Money As A Wedding Singer
  
  > Volume I
  
  > Copyright © 2014 / 2020
  
  > All rights reserved
  
  > Dedication
  
  This book is in Loving Memory of Ashley Rene Williams (daughter) (Feb 19 th
  2008),
  
  (My Sweetheart) Ralph Bunting Jr. (August 6 th 2014),
  
  My Father Stanford D. Williams (August 25 th 2014),
  
  And My Son Jeffery Antoine Gibson who is the reason I keep going And the new
  Edition to the family my grand-daughter Jahzyra Autumn Gibson.
  
  > Introduction
  
  I’ve been singing for as long as I can remember. I’ve always been in school
  choirs and as a kid my cousins and I had more Talent shows than I can
  remember. Over the years I have performed in bands, recording studios, private
  parties and events. I began wedding singing in California in the late 80’s. It
  started as a favor for a friend for my very first and fr