BIOGRAPHY

With over 25 years of experience coaching vocal students and 30 years of performance experience, Janine Arecco is an accomplished vocal professional with an outstanding education and record for success. Her unique teaching style focuses on proper technique, stage presence, and professionalism. Janine provides the perfect combination of class, professionalism and technique with enjoyment for what she believes are essential keys to opening a student's creative veins. She also encourages her students to perform and record at any given opportunity. 

Janine’s teaching is enhanced by her own experience as a performer, in addition to her well rounded education. Janine began studying piano at the age of 4 at American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. At the age of 10, she began training vocally with Classical music and touring Europe with the Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus (now Anima Singers.)  At age 18, she joined the Grant Park Symphony Chorus as one of the youngest members, and went to on to receive an Associate of Arts Degree in Music from College of DuPage, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Entrepreneurial Management with a Minor in Music from Columbia College Chicago in 1997, both with highest honors. 

This foundation of classical roots gave Janine the unique sound she is well known for in her jazz, pop, and rock singing today. Janine began performing Jazz professionally in 1997, fronting “Confetti,” (1997-2013) and “Souled Out/Sound Barrier” (2000-2006) . She has been a featured performer at well-known venues such as Wrigley Field, the House of Blues, and Fitzgerald’s Jazz Club. Janine made her way through the Jazz scene, traveling throughout Chicago and the Midwest. In 2012, Janine formed a local Jazz trio, “FAB” (Ford Arecco Buencamino) where she was featured in yearly festivals from 2012-2014 before the trio’s disbandment. 

During her 30 years of performing, Janine has performed with a multitude of pop, musical theater, rock and jazz groups from Chicago to Atlanta. In her youth, she performed over 20 musicals, with roles such as Maria in the Sound of Music. Upon relocating to Atlanta, she has fronted three bands, including Groovebox (a five piece rock and pop group), Brookwood Split and the 17th Street Horns (a ten piece jazz and pop group with two dynamic singers) and Bridgetown Project, an eclectic acoustic duo made up of herself and her husband, Eddie Dye. She has performed at a multitude of venues and festivals, including Dahlonega Jazz Festival, Jazz by the Water’s Edge, Cafe 290, and the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. 

When not performing, Janine can be found at Freedom Academy of Music Education (FAME) and Ponce de Leon Music Center, where she coaches up to 60 vocal students. Janine is very happy to have been a staff member of FAME from its inception in 2019. She believes that her experience teaching and performing not only makes her a great fit for FAME’s vision, but also allows her to teach exactly what she enjoys doing in her own life. Her students have gone on to play large music festivals, land Broadway roles, receive college scholarships in music and even become vocal coaches themselves. 

Additionally, she manages the children’s summer camp ages 8-18, the “Rock N Roll Experience,” where students are professionally trained to prepare for a show, and come together to create an amazing performance. Janine prides herself on her ability to unite others through music, and be a source of positivity for her students.