Recording artist.

‘vocal virtuosity and searing energy’

- Limelight

An eclectic, emotive sound that’s enticing and indescribable.

Jessica’s genre-rich background fuses opera, classical, jazz, pop and electronica, creating a sound unlike any other. 

Jessica’s vocals defy expectations, wrapping her devotion to story-telling in opera, jazz, pop, early music, cabaret and musical theatre. Rather than fitting neatly within a genre, Jessica’s work seeks to connect with her audience, encouraging them to embrace the scale of human emotions.

Jessica deliberately extends her invitation to new audiences, crafting new sounds and crossing genres. Rise Up revels in a dramatic pop vein while her most recent release undead presents contemporary opera songs and arias in a bite-sized format, creating sonic worlds that are inspiring and accessible to new listeners. 

Throughout her career, Jessica has also performed, toured and recorded with bands and other artists, including ARIA-nominees CODA.

Jessica O'Donoghue with voluminous curly hair, wearing bold makeup with pink blush and dark eye makeup, poses against a neutral background.
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“A mercurial talent, Jessica has created songs with real depth…
theatrical and intimate, operatic and haunting, raw and urgent, at once dark and contemplative and inspiring. It’s pop music with a difference.”

— Ashleigh Wilson, Arts Editor at The Australian

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