Esthero (born Jenny-Bea Englishman, December 23, 1978 in Stratford, OntarioRichard Harrington. October 28, 2005. [LINK: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?node=cityguide/profile&id=1113871] "Esthero, Mixing It Up Again". Washington Post.) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who hails originally from Toronto, Ontario, but has recently moved to Los Angeles. The name Esthero, es-TAIR-oh, refers both to the singer and formerly to the two-person team of herself and producer, Doc. She claims to have gotten the name from an old film character named Esther, whose last line in a movie (The Bell Jar, based on the Sylvia Plath novel of the same name) is, "If I am to be the hero, then I cannot fly from darkness." Esthero's sound characteristically features her voice over a mix of mellow bass lines, jazzy trumpets, Spanish guitar and hip-hop. She is sometimes compared to artist