VOCALIST
The career of Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Jessica Rotter began at the tender age of four, when she performed in her first film, “Love Affair,” singing The Beatles’ song “I Will” with Annette Benning. She joined SAG-AFTRA in 1991 and began performing in and for movies, TV shows, commercials, albums and with artists across many genres. As a pre-teen, she began her classical studies and won numerous scholarships toward her college degree at Pepperdine University where she performed, studied filmmaking and music, and continued to work in the industry. After college, in addition to singing on many film scores as a classical vocalist and other projects as a singer and character vocalist, she began writing and releasing original music as a solo artist, arranger and songwriter. She now writes and performs for projects across many genres and with many other accomplished musicians.
Jessica has had the privilege of singing backup for a wide range of musicians: Portugal. The Man, She & Him, Carole King, Alicia Keys, Sam Smith, Macklemore, Quincy Jones, Martina McBride and more in bucket-list venues like Madison Square Garden, The Hollywood Bowl, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Red Rocks and major music festivals. Her film/tv career has been as diverse as singing operatic solos a la Ennio Morricone in shows like The Simpsons to innocent emotive melodies in projects like The Suicide Squad to voicing Valley Girl Bunnies and supporting lead vocalists in Sing 1 & 2 and lending vocal power to nearly every Disney Channel Original Movie ever made. She can be heard singing the theme songs of WandaVision and numerous themes she also wrote for a variety of Wondery podcasts. You can hear her in movie musicals La La Land, Wish, Trolls 1 & 2, The Lego Movies, Frozen 1 & 2, Hairspray, Pitch Perfect 1, 2 & 3, and many more. In addition to solo performances, she frequently sings in film score choirs and on-camera choirs. As a writer, she has had her music synced in TV shows and has written some custom songs for a variety of film projects, notably Warner Brother’s Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase with co-writers Emily Bear and Sarah Margaret Huff. In addition to her work as a soloist, Jessica has a female folk trio, JEMS, set to release their second full length album in June 2024.
Jessica also comes from a successful musical family. Her grandfather, Johnny Rotella, a multiinstrumentalist and songwriter, wrote music for Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Doris Day and many others and played with many top artists of the 60s and 70s. Her mother, Geri Rotella-Rotter is a highly sought-after flute player in the LA film and classical music worlds and her father Peter Rotter is a well-respected music contractor and composer.
On the role of music in her life thus far, Jessica explains why she can’t imagine a career in anything else: