Jared Smith is an American amateur singer specializing in Spanish. His singing career achived some noteriety in the mid-1990s when his brothers Colin and Ian of Freeverse Software combined a recording of his singing with an animated smiley face. The resulting program was intended as their mother's birthday gift.

The two brothers later sent the singing software to their friends. The recipients also passed it to their own friends. The software, known as "Jared: the Butcher of Song", became a cult hit because his version of "Luna de Xelajú " was so awful as to be funny. "Jared" is playable on Mac OS and Microsoft Windows personal computers.

Over the following couple of years, Jared and Freeverse published several other versions of the program featuring different songs, including a nearly undecipherable Christmas song.

Jared's animated avatar appeared in a 1998 commercial for Blockbuster Video, and has also been included in the credits for Macromedia Director [1]. He also appears as a boss character in Freeverse's action shooter game Kill Monty.

See also

• Florence Foster Jenkins
• Mrs. Miller
• William Topaz McGonagall
• Numa numa

External links

• Jared download page
• Jared for Windows
• Arty Geeks' Inane Voice a Hit by Michelle Delio
• Who the Heck is Jared? by Wendy Jackson