San Francisco Bay Area Songwriter Jill Carole blends the confessional with lush vocals and moody melodies, giving her songs an intimate and cinematic flavor. In her typical tongue-in-cheek manner, Jill refers to her creations as "romantic, mini home movies." Her background in poetry and fiction writing shines through, giving her songs a sense of place and story, each one a literary landscape, chock-full of double entendres and cleverly crafted wordplay. Jill paints with her words, creating layers of meanings and colors, and this quality is reflected in her textural arrangements.

Jill's music has been called dark and edgy, passionate and visceral, quirky, "a Tori Amos/Kate Bush fusion with pop sensibilities." Her latest tracks have inspired one reviewer to call Jill Carole "Beck on estrogen."

Raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Jill Carole's musical influences were shaped by her mother, a local opera singer and Beatles fan, who turned her on to vibrato-laden Vivaldi and contralto renditions of "Love Me Do" and other Beatles favorites - "usually before 8 AM each day," Jill quips. Carole left the South to study at Amherst College and then at The Berklee College of Music, where she twice received the top singer-songwriter award. She migrated to California, trading her acoustic guitar for an electric, and rekindling her affair with the piano, which has become her instrument of choice. "The piano is more dreamy, like my songscapes," says Jill.

In 1998, Jill Carole was signed to England's Mystic Records when she released her first CD "The Easter Bunny, Sex and Santa Claus." She promoted the CD by touring the U.K. as a support act for fellow Mystic Artist Colin Blunstone, former lead singer for the legendary Zombies. Jill returned to England the following year, as an opener for Al Stewart. She has also opened shows for such artists as Love and Rockets' David J., Byrds founder Roger McGuinn, and Suzzy Roche of the Roches. In the studio, her songs have featured Bob Weir (the Grateful Dead), drummer Steve Perkins (Jane's Addiction), guitarist Paul Robinson (Dan Hicks, Al Stewart), and keyboardist Jim Pugh (Chris Isaak, Robert Cray). Celebrated musical whiz Scott Mathews (Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, John Hiatt) produced her second CD, a "Technicolor Life."

Jill Carole performed throughout the Bay Area with her San Francisco band, Jill Carole & the Contrarians, until the birth of her son London in 2002. With London as their inspiration, Jill Carole & Paul Robinson joined forces to create a 20-song all original children's CD "Jungle Jam," giving themselves the moniker: the flutterbys. Jill's song from that CD: "A Cow Who Likes To Whistle" features special guest performances by Oscar-nominated actress Piper Laurie, folk-swing icon Dan Hicks , Al "Year-Of-The-Cat" Stewart, and award-winning whistler & voice artist (the "voice" of Woodstock in the Emmy-nominated Peanuts cartoon,"She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown"), Jason Victor Serinus!. "A Cow Who Likes To Whistle" was a finalist and won an honorable mention in the 2009 International Songwriting Contest.
Jill Carole is currently playing solo, and is working on material for a new ("grown-up," aka Adult Alternative) CD, which she says will be "more melodic, more romantic, more dreamy, more keyboard."