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Jan Terri - "Excuse My Christmas" - FIRST SINGLE FROM NEW ALBUM, "Wild One"

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Jan Terri's Christmas song for 2011. This will be on her comeback album, "Wild One."

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From Wikipedia:
Jan Terri (born June 17, 1959) is a musician from Chicago who gained notoriety for her VHS music videos. She recorded two albums, High Risk[1] and Baby Blues[2] in the early 90s, along with VHS cassettes including her music videos, which became popular on YouTube. Terri graduated from Columbia College Chicago in 1983 with a degree in broadcast communications and arts and entertainment management. While at Columbia, she interned at a recording studio in Hillside run by a country bar band called the Windy City Cowboys. Terri became their backup singer. She also studied voice with Anne Perillo.

By 1992, Terri was working as a limo driver when she planned to return to making music. Prior to this, Terri worked as a cashier at a Zayre department store where she met bagger Jeff Lemeshewsky, her future producer and boyfriend. The relationship reportedly began after Jan watched Jeff play tennis. Apparently her heart grew fonder the more terribly he played. Despite its magical beginnings, the relationship would quickly sour after a dispute over another romantic tryst. Jeff cried for days on end and ultimately mustered the courage to leave Jan, which was the inspiration for her all-time classic, "Losing You". The specific line "You're the only thing that matters" has been attributed to them getting back together and eventually getting married, which they remain today, still working on their much anticipated duet album, "Dirtbike Love". Jan has recorded a wide collection of songs, and eventually had several music videos filmed to help promote them. Still working as a limousine driver, Terri would give copies of the videos to her clients in an attempt to generate interest in work. These became cult favorites in advertising and marketing circles.[citation needed]
In the late 1990s, Terri's a copy of a one of her videos was seen by rock musician Marilyn Manson. He had Terri perform her number one hit at one of his parties as a sort of sideshow to his 'freak' tour theme, and allowed her to open for one of his concerts. Some footage of her can be viewed in Manson's God is in the TV collection. Terri's second album, High Risk, was released around this time, and she enjoyed a cult following in Chicago for a few more years.

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  • Jan Terri is Punk Rock by definition.... she does her own thing and gives a fuck what anybody else thinks. This comeback was waaaaaaaaaay overdue.

  • fuck this shit i'm vegan.

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  • ...nor can you escape the fact how she cant pronounce her 'R's 

  • Jan is a legend, i cant deny it, or escape it .....

  • In New York City there'ssomanyplacestogo

  • This is terrible but at least her hearts in the right place, who seriously made that video just makes it 30 times worse

  • she looks like my math teacher

  • she still sucks

  • She's had 20+ years and this is the best she can come up with????

  • well there

  • I like that the title will be Wild One. Shows she has a sense of self-irony.

  • Giving this woman a record deal is like giving a baby a loaded gun.

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