Jana Herzen is a
singer-songwriter with
folk,
world,
rock and
jazz influences who founded
Motéma Music, a
Harlem-based
record label focused on virtuosic jazz and world music. Prior to founding the label in 2003, she worked as a musician (her CD,
Soup's on Fire, was the first CD on the label), an art agent for
Winston Smith, who designed the logo for Motéma. Herzen was instrumental in the publishing of
Artcrime, Smith's 2nd volume of collected works on the
Last Gasp publishing imprint.