Jennifer Batten

Jennifer Batten is an American guitarist who first received word-of-mouth attention that eventually led guitar magazines to take notice of her approach to the electric guitar. On Guitar Player Monthly's premier compilation CD, John Stix wrote, "It was Jennifer's version of John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" that was considered by her peers the "scariest and most requested cut on the disc." Batten's solo albums include her 1992 debut Above Below and Beyond, produced by Stevie Wonder's guitarist Michael Sembello; and her 1997 world beat influenced Jennifer Batten's Tribal Rage: Momentum.

Guest recordings include: Jeff Beck's "Who Else" and "You Had It Coming", Carmine Appice's "Guitar Zeus" (featuring Brian May), Michael Sembellos' "Heavy Weather" , Carl Anderson's "Sunlight Again", Cindy Cruz's debut, Public Image bassist Bret Helm's "Doc Tahri" and the debut of The Immigrants. Music video appearances include Jeff Beck, Michael Jackson, Natalie Cole and Sara Hickman and Miguel Mateos's "Obsesion". She was also featured in "Hot Guitarist's" video magazine.

She served as a backing guitarist for Michael Jackson's Bad, Dangerous and History tours, where she became recognizable for her outrageous hairstyles and costumes. She also backed Michael Jackson during his 1993 Super Bowl half-time performance.

Between 1994 and 1999 Batten joined Dave Rodgers and Domino as featured guitarist on the eurobeat songs "Sun City", "Music For the People", "Fly" and "Woa Woa Woa." Her writing and performing is uncredited in several other songs under the A-Beat C label. Her live Eurobeat appearances were limited to playing at the Tokyo Dome with Dave Rodgers and Queen of Hearts. Batten's third solo album, Whatever., was released in Japan in September 2007 and released in US on April 18, 2008.

She has worked with a designer to create a brand of guitar string dampers called the Batten String Damper and has authored two music books.

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