North Carolina-born and LA-raised, Jordan Patterson is a 23-year-old singer, songwriter, and producer creating catharsis from an alternative landscape. Blunt, raw, and decisive, Patterson is crafting a world through her music by inviting listeners to absorb the depth of her humanity and imagination. She is perfectly and imperfectly human; her music is a direct reflection of her experience, leaving listeners with a peculiar familiarity and unidentified nostalgia.
Patterson began writing in elementary school, writing what she now describes as “poems that want to move.” She attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts as a theater major but was exposed to new forms of artistry that expanded the scope of her creativity. In 2020, she moved to New York to attend NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts but moved back to LA in 2021 to pursue music full-time.
From 2021 to 2022, Patterson recorded various personal projects, including her first project, “I Am a Real Person,” along with her two EPs, “Demos” and “Patchworks,” which saw releases on Bandcamp and Soundcloud. In January of 2023, she began recording her debut project, “The Hermit,” with Eric Van Thyne and Jacob Johanson. Patterson calls this album a “family project,” as she collaborated with dozens of local LA songwriters, instrumentalists, and vocalists in the process of creating the body of work. Collaborating with so many people shifted her process as a solo artist, as she began to view the craft of musicianship as a gift, both in practice and in play. “The Hermit” is genre-less by nature, as Patterson tiptoes around a plethora of different styles, sounds, and emotions to reflect her experience as authentically and as holistically as possible.
From 2023 to 2025, Patterson continued playing shows at various venues in LA, including El Cid, Healing Force of the Universe, Permanent Records Roadhouse, Silverlake Lounge, and Genghis Cohen, among others. In 2023, she opened for Superfan at the Moroccan Lounge, and in 2025, she opened for Cameron Winter at Barnsdall Art Park. She has also recorded with musicians cross-nationally, working with producers from LA, New York, Atlanta, and London. She has been featured in multiple media outlets, including Rolling Stone, Stereogum, The Line of Best Fit, Nina Protocol, and has received attention from Spotify’s editorial curators who have featured Jordan on their Alt/Pop and New Music Friday Denmark playlists. Patterson is now based in LA and continues to collaborate extensively with other artists in developing her newer projects.
At its core, Jordan’s music parallels her individual experience and the relationships that ignite her. Jordan is eternally dedicated to being an unadulterated novice, creating music that reflects her role as an artist who is perpetually “in progress.”
