Cadence Spalding is an American educator, vocalist, instrumentalist and composer. She is well known as a new age musician and also as a children entertainer under the name of Miss Jenny. Her solo album Save The World peaked #4 on the Top 100 New Age/Ambient/World Radio/Internet Airwaves Chart and was the best new age album in 2009.^[1]

Cadence Spalding was born Jennifer Lynn Spalding in San Francisco to a father that read law at the University of California, Berkeley and a mother that had been a model. Although with this family background, she got many influences in music from her father, who was a choir director in his spare time, but notably from her grandmother, Jean Spalding (née Hargrove), a music teacher in northern California for over 30 years.^[2]

Spalding started her career singing as part of a college band called Jane His Wife from 1985 to 1987. They played for private parties and weddings.^[2] She later got a Bachelor's degree in Art from the University of California, Davis and a Graduate Degree in Education from Saint Mary's College of California.^[3] Apart from these studies, she has also got a California teaching credential in Music and Art Education.^[3] Then Spalding moved to San Francisco where she worked as an agent to preschool teacher, an aerobics instructor and a waitress for a TV producer.^[2] Afterwards she got a commercial music degree in Vocal Performance from the Musicians Institute, Hollywood.^[2] As her father, Spalding has been a choir director at educational organizations in Los Angeles and San Francisco.^[3] She was the owner of The Dance Garden, an arts school for children in San Francisco.^[3] Her occupations have also included several charitable initiatives, including writing and performing music for Share Inc.^[3]