Jenny Mae

Jennifer Mae Leffel, better known as Jenny Mae (1968–2017), was an American indie rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, and keyboardist. She was active first as a member of the band Vibralux, and later as a solo artist.

Biography The second of five children, Leffel was born in South Vienna, Ohio in 1968. She became interested in music in elementary school, when she began playing the trumpet, which she proved very gifted at playing by ear. She went on to play trumpet in the marching band at Northeastern High School in Springfield, Ohio, where she was also on the cross country team and became a member of the National Honor Society. She went on to graduate from Ohio State University in 1986.

Leffel started the short-lived bands the Rahvers and Hot Rod before founding Vibralux. In contrast to her previous acts, Vibralux played pop music influenced by her favorite artists – the Beach Boys and the Beatles. Vibralux's style was described by Joel Oliphint of Columbus Alive as "gauzy and delicate". Leffel broke up Vibralux in 1993, and released a split single with Guided By Voices on Anyway Records the same year. In 1994, she married David Olds, whom she had met working at the Capital Club in downtown Columbus. She had plans to record a third album, but this had to be shelved when she decided to move to Miami, Florida with Olds. Though Leffel's original plan was to only live in Miami for part of the year, the move nevertheless disrupted her music career in Columbus, as well as her marriage to Olds, which later ended in divorce.

Discography Singles If We Wait / Red Chair (split 7" with Guided by Voices, Anyway, 1993)

Studio albums There's a Bar Around the Corner...Assholes (Anyway, 1995) Don't Wait Up for Me (Anyway, 1998)

EPs A New World Record (American Pop Project, 1999)