While she studied film production at Toronto's York University during 1984-1986, she also attended the Banff Summer Jazz Workshop in 1985, singing with the Cecil Taylor Workshop Big Band and taking lessons from Jay Clayton, Dave Liebman, and Julian Priester. After periods living in Paris, New York, and Amsterdam, she settled in Montreal. Married to drummer Michel Lambert, she co-founded the record label Jazz from Rant with her brother and her husband in 1991. Jeannette Lambert considers her music to be inspired and influenced not only by other jazz singers but by flamenco, fado, and jaipongan. In addition to her singing and recording, she writes music to her own poetry and is an internet filmmaker. Her recordings, primarily for the Jazz from Rant label, include free improvisations, match-ups with pianist Paul Bley, and two volumes of Bebop for Babies, jazz versions of children's melodies. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi