Jenna Flor was born in England and studied classical violin and piano, playing in youth orchestras during her teens. She is completely self taught on the guitar.  Jenna was inspired to pick up the nylon string guitar after listening to Jose Feliciano and Sergio Mendes.  This interest evolved as she developed a passion for Brazilian and Latin music. When she heard the Getz/Gilberto album she taught herself the Portuguese lyrics, jazz chords and rhythms of many bossa nova and samba standards from that era.

When Jenna was 17, she spent a year in Paris busking with her guitar and violin in the metro for money. She ran into many latin musicians who taught her chords and rhythms. She would play 'One Note Samba' to earn enough change for breakfast (a bottle of wine and a baguette with' La Vache Qui Rit' cheese). As she improved her playing, so did her venues and meals. She graduated to playing outside the cafes on Boulevard St Michelle substituting her humble baguette with a 'Croque Monsieur' which is a fancy long grilled cheese sandwhich.

She busked like that all the way through Turkey, Kabul, Greece, Kashmir, and Delhi (playing violin with an East Indian rock band!), eventually landing in Canada where she spent 8 years in Montreal playing with various Brazilian and Latin American groups.

Since then Jenna has developed her own unique style of blending Brazilian and Latin rhythms and applying them to the nylon string guitar.  She is primarily a guitarist who accompanies her guitar with her voice as she sings in  French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English.  Since 1995 she had been living on Gabriola Island, and recently moved to Nanaimo B.C., playing in various musical combos. This new delightful combination of like- minded musicians makes up the Bossa Loca Quartet.