Despite her valiant efforts, she wasn’t picked up by any major record companies and as a single parent with a young family , she abandoned her dreams and returned to university to study for a degree (a BSc in Applied psychology), in order for her to get a ‘proper’ job and support her children.
Fast forward a few years and she’s now married and settled with child number three. She does the occasional gig and continues to write songs but any aspirations of ‘making it’ are far behind her.
Then her friend Ian hears her old songs and suggests she upload her old demo's which have been gathering dust for ages onto the Internet. They decide to make the songs available at www.mp3.com, an Internet based music website which specialises in hosting music by independent artists.
Using Jane's pseudonym of Rachael Blue , Ian uploads a handful of tracks.
Within weeks, Jane has received dozens of emails from all over the world from people who have heard the songs, asking if there is an album available. The trickle of emails quickly become a steady stream and soon she’s had thousands of visitors to her site all eager to hear more material.
She is soon approached by several Internet based radio stations and within weeks her songs are being played to a global network of listeners. Currently, Jane’s music is being broadcast on over 70 different radio networks world-wide.
Encouraged and amazed by the response, Jane starts recording and the interest grows. First the local press run a couple of stories, then local radio pick up on it and Jane is invited to be a guest. This appearance fuels even more curiosity about her and soon afterwards, she appears on national radio where within ten minutes of the show , she recieves a staggering 147 emails asking for details of her music.
Jane says: " I’m delighted and astonished by the response I’ve had. I’d long since given up any hope of doing anything with my music. Let’s face it, I’m a thirty something mother of three, hardly ‘rock star’ material, yet it doesn’t seem to matter. In the current climate of an image dominated music industry I never believed I would stand a chance, yet given the choice, people really don’t seem to care that much about age, looks or status. They just like the songs and it’s brilliant…it’s exactly what music should be about."