Meet Jan Eberle …
Jan Eberle began her exciting career in 1980 as featured band vocalist for The Vincent Lopez Orchestra. Beginning in Philadelphia and Atlantic City, she branched quickly throughout the tri-state area to sold-out crowds. Miss Eberle performed many of the songs her father, big band singing legend, Ray Eberle, made famous with The Glenn Miller Orchestra, but incorporated her unique style into each of her arrangements.
In the 1980’s, Jan hosted and engineered a popular one hour radio program highlighting the era she had become such an extended part of. Today, she hosts the Internet radio program, “Swing Museum with Jan Eberle” on WYYR.com.(Archives also available on KSAV.org)
Miss Eberle became the author of her first book in 2002, titled, The Eberle Named Ray, the biography of her father’s life and pioneering work in music history. Over time, Jan also became a contributing writer for The American Legion Magazine where several of her articles were published and authored a second biography in 2008 titled, The Transparent Veil.
Jan is proud of the release of her first album, titled, Blue Champagne. In 2006, she made a first trip to Europe, singing in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Bedford, England. In 2007, she returned to the U.K. for an historic performance with The John Miller Orchestra marking the first time in 65 years that a Miller and Eberle shared a stage.
Most notably, Miss Eberle filmed the music video, ‘White Cliffs of Dover’, a corner piece of a documentary in Europe dedicated to the WWII soldiers who died and were missing in the Netherlands region. Her video work was used as a campaign to adopt 8000 Missing Soldiers listed on the wall at Margraten Cemetery commemorating their ultimate sacrifices.
Currently she heads fundraising on behalf of “The Ray Eberle Vocal Scholarship”, named for her late father, Ray Eberle. This scholarship is given in conjunction with The Glenn Miller Scholarship Foundation.