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Klingon Pop Warrior

jenbom (2014)

Klingon Pop Warrior is a project by Jen Usellis-Mackay, who sings terran songs in Klingon. Her Klingon name is jenbom tai-toQqul (1).

History

Jen was not a Star Trek fan until she got cast in A Klingon Christmas Carol in 2010. (2)

In 2013, Jen was brought in on a recommendation to sing HIchop (Kiss me) for the Improvised Star Trek podcast and a music video for YouTube was later made to go with it (3). The music video went viral(4) (5) and its popularity sparked the idea for the 2014 Klingon Pop Warrior music project. After a kickstarter campaign where 137 supporters contributed $2,756.00, she produced an entire album (6). It was released 10 November 2014. The songs are available on Amazon(7), iTunes, GooglePlay(8) and CDBaby (9).

Albums

"Warrior Woman"

Cover of the album
© Jen Usellis

Released in 2014.

Title	Klingon Title	Length	Translator
1. Baby, One More Time	bangwI, walogh HIqIpqa	2:45	Chris Lipscombe
2. Kiss Me	HIchop	2:14	Robyn Stewart, Chris Lipscombe, Christopher Kidder-Mostrom, Jeremy Cowan
3. My Heart Will Go On	taH tIqwIj	4:08	Melanie Roney
4. Let It Go	yIbuSQo'	4:26	Felix Malmenbeck
5. Bad Romance	parmaq qab	4:28	Tracy Canfield
6. Love Is a Battlefield	che'ron 'oH parmaq'e'	3:57	Chris Lipscombe

"bommey qu' (Fierce Songs)"

On October 25, 2016 a second project has been created on Kickstarter: The Pop Warrior Returns with Fierce Warrior Songs! (10). One of the stretch-goals was a music video. Live recordings of Somewhere over the rainbow and Mother could be seen on the kickstarter page, as well as her Youtube-channel. The second EP bommey qu' (Fierce Songs) was released in April 2017.

Title	Klingon Title	Length	Translator
1. We're Not Gonna Take It (Twisted Sister)	wIlajQo'	-	Melanie Roney
2. Mother (Danzig)	SoS	-	John Harness & Jen
3. Die Young (Ke$ha)	QuptaHvIS maHegh	-	Melanie Roney
4. Don't Stop Believin' (Journey)	bIHar 'e' yImevQo'	-	Maevis Peterson
5. Somewhere Over The Rainbow ("The Wizard of Oz")	Har'ey DungDaq vogh 'oH	-	Chris Lipscombe

Somewhere over the Rainbow has an updated translation with a new word to the Klingon dictionary by Marc Okrand, Har'ey (rainbow).

"Great Deeds! Great Songs!"

On January 1, 2021, the third EP project was launched on Kickstarter and fully funded within 9.5 hours.(11)(12) The project's stretch goals included adding the Klingon Pop Warrior songs to the music streaming service Spotify. The second EP bommey qu' (Fierce Songs) was released on March 5, 2021.

Title	Klingon Title	Length	Translator
1. Born to Be Wild (Steppenwolf)	matlhay'Ha'meH mabogh	-	Jen Usellis
2. No Scrubs (TLC)	lujwI'pu' vIneHbe'	-	Jen Usellis
3. Maneater (Hall & Oates)	loD SopwI'	-	Chris Lipscombe
4. The Warrior (Patty Smyth w/ Scandal)	SuvwI'	-	Chris Lipscombe
5. Good as Hell (Lizzo)	jIbaw'qu' 'ej jIqu'	-	Jen Usellis & Juliana Bukoski

Other Performances

At Starbase Indy 2019, jenbom performed TLC's No Scrubs as lujwI'pu' vIneHbe' with Mary Chieffo.(13)(14)

References

1 : Jen Usellis, Klingon singer, retrieved 31 July 2015

2 : Video documentary on Daily Vice, published 3 December 2017

3 : HIchop! - Klingon Kiss Me on Youtube, published 23 April 2013, with 161.000 views on August 2015

4 : Sixpence None The Richers Kiss Me Sounds Even Better In Klingon on time.com, 17 Oct 2014

5 : This Is A Woman Singing Sixpence None The Richers "Kiss Me" In Klingon, BuzzFeed, by Ryan Broderick, 24 April 2013

6 : Klingon Pop Warrior Music Project on Kickstarter.com, retrieved 31 July 2015

7 : http://www.amazon.com/Warrior-Woman-The-Klingon-Pop/dp/B00PAQT7EO

8 : GooglePlay Store

9 : http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/theklingonpopwarrior1

10 : second Kickstarter campaign

11 : [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jenusellis/klingon-pop-warrior-great-deeds-great-songs-the-3rd-ep][Klingon Pop Warrior: Great Deeds! Great Songs! - The 3rd EP!], Kickstarter, accessed 2021 April 29

12 : [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jenusellis/klingon-pop-warrior-great-deeds-great-songs-the-3rd-ep/posts/3063833][Kahless's cats, what just happened.], Kickstarter, accessed 2021 April 29

13 : No Scrubs, Wikipedia, accessed 2020 June 09

14 : Klingon "No Scrubs" (Live @ Starbase Indy) - Klingon Pop Warrior, YouTube, uploaded 2020 February 01, accessed 2020 June 09