She is the former frontwoman of 5-piece alternative rock outfit Goldleaf, and currently one-fourth of the glam folk-pop band The Prom Queens. Her highlights included playing the lead role of Deena Jones in a production of the musical 'Dreamgirls' and performing a solo during The Ohio State University School of Music’s “CONCEPT: Freedom” choral festival - a three-day summit addressing the topic of human trafficking.Īfter graduating from The Ohio State University in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts in Music, she returned to Cleveland to launch her career as a musician. Ayana attended The Ohio State University, where she performed with multiple student organizations, community theatre companies, and choral ensembles. She has loved music from an early age and grew up playing violin, acting, singing, and dancing in school musicals, and singing in church and school choirs. In December 2021, she joined the School of Rock Cleveland as a vocal instructor, and is thrilled to help current and future musicians find their voice, and confidence to perform in whatever capacity they desire.Īyana Mollie Cheston is a vocalist, songwriter, and visual artist based in Cleveland, OH. She also formed an acoustic rock duo called Jessi Rose and Fabián, and sings in multiple other projects as well. Along with singing in The Rubicons, she has joined many other artists in the Cleveland music community in one way or another singing lead, backup, and joining recording sessions at various recording studios in NorthEast Ohio.

In 2013 she moved to Cleveland where the world of the local music community opened wide for her. In 2009, she moved to Columbus Ohio where she and her sister formed their rock band, The Rubicons in early 2012. She performed with the Blossom Festival Chorus with The Cleveland Orchestra over the course of 5 years. During that time she was introduced to The Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus. She went on to attend the Kent State School of Music where she majored in vocal performance in classical voice. From then on, throughout her teens and 20's, she became extremely passionate about performing many different genres of music including rock, musical theater, choral, and classical. Always gravitating to singing, she started private voice lessons at the age of 14. She had a love of music from a very young age, and even though her parents weren't musicians themselves, they exposed her to an eclectic mix of different types of music. Jessi Nemeth grew up in Akron and Cuyahoga Falls Ohio.

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