Christina Perri

A singer/songwriter who’s never been afraid to bare her innermost thoughts and emotions, Christina Perri established that rare degree of fearlessness with her first song to widely connect with listeners.

Born in a suburb of Philadelphia, in 1986, Perri was a music-biz hopeful getting by as a server at the Melrose Place Café in Los Angeles when a friend helped get her song “Jar of Hearts” into an episode of So You Think You Can Dance in 2010, a highly unusual break for an unsigned artist.

With her emphatic delivery of lyrics that conveyed the pain of a crumbling romance, Perri laid herself bare in a way that evoked both the rawness of Fiona Apple and the swoony sensitivity of Sarah McLachlan.