Music has been in Janet Lenore's blood for several generations. As a pre-schooler, Janet Lenore remembers playing rhyming games and singing folk songs with her mother. She started playing the guitar and writing songs in junior high school and soon thereafter Janet and her mother formed "Rosenthorn," a folk/pop guitar and vocal duo. Janet was amused when the two played bar gigs, because she was actually "too young to go see herself play." Janet's Mom Mildred was her vocal coach, one-time piano teacher and best friend. She was never a "stage Mom" - the collaboration just evolved naturally as Janet practiced her guitar around the house.

During their ten years as a mother-daughter singing team, Rosenthorn played several live radio performances, won talent shows, and performed for audiences large and small. They conducted a five-week cross-country tour, during which they gave 21 free performances in 19 states on behalf of the Baha'i Faith. The loss of her mother to cancer in 1994 lead to some serious soul searching that culminated in a five-month period living out of her car. Janet then re-established her home in the San Francisco Bay Area and renewed her commitment to her music. She celebrated her songwriting comeback by receiving recognition for her novelty tune "The Hale-Bopp Comet Song" in 1997.

During the next two years, Janet Lenore performed at several venues near her Hayward, California home. These stages include: the Java Rama Coffeehouse, the Buckhorn Lounge, High Tea and Coffee, the Whole Shebang, the Minnow Lounge and at Oakland's Java House. In 1999, Janet also performed her original music at Berkeley's Freight and Salvage, the Starry Plough, the Bistro, and the annual Toby and Nita Roodman House Concert.

The title song and cover art of her new CD, "Ladies Of My Family," are meant to show respect for her family's accomplishments. By showing the beauty and grace of simple country folk from the past, Janet hopes to urge others to value those in their own family tree who struggled to make the best life that they could for their children. Most particularly, the song "Ladies of My Family" pays tribute to the fun-loving and brave spirits of both Janet's mother and grandmother. Janet Lenore feels that beginning the New Year with her first CD release seems a particularly auspicious start to the next millenium as well. "By understanding our own history and at least a little bit about those who went before us," the songwriter says, "we can appreciate the good lives we have now and optimistically welcome the unknown challenges and pleasures that lie ahead."