Daughter of a harmonica player who headlined theaters across the country in the '30s, Jane has been performing since grade school, when she joined her dad on stage at various venues in New England. She has been singing ever since. Her first two albums, "I've Got My Standards" (DRG) and "Double Standards" (Doxie) have elicited raves from the critics, Downbeat praising her "Ella-styled artistry", and the New York Daily News cheering "a brilliant star". Her latest CD, "In Times Like These" has already drawn praise from Rex Reed, who writes: "Jane Scheckter has done a marvelous job of demonstrating, once again, that all is not lost if we can still find love and hope...in times like these."   A native of Springfield, MA, Jane showed her musical talent early in life, singing and playing the piano from age five, and adding the violin at twelve. Persuaded by her parents to "have a civilian career to fall back on", she attended Pratt Institute, where she majored in design and starred in most of the  campus theatricals.          

   She immediately found work as a fashion designer on Seventh Avenue and in Milan, Hong Kong and New Delhi. Her designs were featured in the leading fashion magazines and modeled by the likes of Lauren Hutton, but singing remained her first love.  She started singing in New York clubs at night, while holding down her design job by day. She would take long lunch hours to rehearse with her accompanist, an up and coming pianist named Barry Manilow.  Barry played and sang backup on her demo records and when he recorded his first album, Jane sang backup for him on  "Could It Be Magic". She auditioned for Milos Forman and appeared in his first U.S. film, "Taking Off", appearing with other unknowns Carly Simon and  Kathy Bates. After a time,  she said goodbye to the  fashion world and concentrated on the show world instead.           

   Her New York club appearances include engagements at Reno Sweeney, Brothers and Sisters, Grand Finale, the FireBird, the Ballroom, Danny's, Judy's and Eighty Eight's.  Reviewing her cabaret act, John S, Wilson in the New York Times wrote of her "precise, positive, pure-toned voice" and "her off-hand delivery that gives sparkle to the standards". In Los Angeles she sang at the Academy, Le Cafe and The Gardenia, and performed in the improvisation group, "Off the Wall" with Robin Williams. She toured the world as one-third of Tuxedo Junction, the vocal trio that had the number one disco album in the U.S.A. in 1978. She also made guest shots on American Bandstand, Dinah Shore, Midnight Special, Disco Fever and the  Jerry Lewis telethon from Las Vegas.                                    

   She has appeared twice  in the  92nd Street Y's Lyrics & Lyricists  and on the  syndicated radio show "New York Cabaret Nights". Off Broadway she appeared in "Our Sinatra" during the 2001 season, with Peter Cincotti.  She was seen in Barry Manilow's long-running hit "The Drunkard" and "The Proposition", with Jane Curtin and Fred Grandy. She appeared in "Fiddler on the Roof" at the Framingham Music Theater in Boston, She also has been seen on the soap operas, "Capitol" and "All My Children".   Jane was a guest soloist with the Springfield (Mass.) Symphony, playing to an audience of 5,000 in a pops concert.  She gave a solo concert at Le Theatre de Dix Heures in Paris. Other French appearances include Le Bilboquet and La Villa in Paris; Le Chateau, La Napoule; Chateau de Berne on the Riviera and concerts at the national music festivals in Valbonne and Biot, also on the Riviera. In 1996 she received the Back Stage magazine Bistro Award for outstanding jazz vocalist.