Jennifer was born in New York City on December 13, 1968. Her parents divorced when she was just seven years old. Her father was actor, John Savage and much of Jennifer's childhood was spent in exotic locales like Rome and Lapland on the sets of her father's films. After graduating from Cape cod Academy, Jennifer decided to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. She sold everything she owned and with her dog Tana, headed west to California. She auditioned and got the part of 'Ingrid" Matthew Cooper's Swedish girlfriend on Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman. Her character was written out of the series in 1995 in episode entitled "Brother's Keeper."

During her time on Dr. Quinn, Jennifer continued with her first love - music, playing around L.A and writing songs with her band "What's the Bob". Eventually Jen was ready to make a real recording of her band, which is how she met Ronnie Champagne, a native Canadien who had just returned from working in Europe producing and mixing cd's for bands wanting that American sound. Their relationship grew both personally and professionally and they began creating recordings in their home studio beginning with a multi media performance piece about reincarnation called "Mobius". What would become "Jennifer Savage" (now Jennifer Youngs)was a sound track for a screenplay about a rock star named Lucidity. "Lucidity" started out loud and heavy but was interrupted by Ronnie getting called back to Europe to go on a 68 city, 20th anniversary European tour with Portugal's pre-eminent rock band, EMI's ‘Xuto's e Pontapes". They both went, Ronnie playing guitar at outdoor festivals, stadiums and coliseums for massive crowds in Portugal, Madeira, the Azores Islands and Germany, including the first ever-western music festival in Mozambique, Africa.

After the tour, they formed a band with Xuto's drummer Kalu Ferreira to pick up where they left off with the Lucidity songs, calling the project "Jennifer Savage". Jennifer and Ronnie returned to the east coast of the U.S. in fall 2001 and immediately got married. They made a cd of pop songs written in Europe called "I like to watch TV" and two electronic avant-garde cd's "CHAMP" 1 and 2.