I was born September 12, 1972 in Daly City, Ca. the youngest of five.
I sang more than I talked, left home young, always enjoyed music, sharing a smile
and my own unique creativity as a means of empowering others.
I currently live outside Cleveland, OH with roommates and my two cats Jupiter and Neptune.

Kitty Safe started in 1999 while I was in college.

Kitty Safe is a name I came up with when I was hangin' out with my girlfriend at the dorm,
She was talking to me about keeping her son safe on the web who was 4,
and I said, "Sure, and what if your cat is walking across your keyboard?
You gotta make sure your cat is safe on the Internet too."
So, obviously I decided my website would be a kitty safe site, and whammo, Kitty Safe
was stupidly brought into life! 

I moved down to San Diego to help my friend Kacy raise her little amazing daughter

when she was 6 months old, and finished college in San Diego at that time.

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At 16 years old, I worked as a Sous chef in a french restaurant,

I've worked for Yahoo and NBC Universal.

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FAQ (mostly questions by friends on Facebook)

Question: What do you define your music as?

Me: You can listen to a bunch on my website, www.jmberman.com but I would define it as heartfelt autobiographical folk that expresses my poetry, my dreams, and honest understanding of my life in a way that sounds more '70s maybe than any other era of music.

Question: How did you even get those jobs anyways? Just working your way up the chain?

or lucky breaks/etc...i know you are a talented guy, but it can be hard to break into good jobs regardless.

Me: Most of my jobs were not even hiring, I basically all my life have created a position from an idea and just won them over.

That's how I became a sous chef in a french restaurant when I was 16. The luck was in talking to people in positions of power who were adventurous risk takers.

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I got really serious about my music once I'd gotten my shit together only about 10 years ago,

have released my first album, I Fall Awake, along with 20 or so bonus songs on the website,

and am working on my second album, 17 Years In A Day.

If you need to contact me for any reason, don't, there's no reason for it.

Or find me on Facebook!

THANKS!

~Jonathan Berman