Jackie Ha.-

Jackie first knew she had a gift at the age of ten, although she was five when she held her first microphone. Growing up as an only child, Jackie spent much her time listening to music mimicking and singing along to great entertainers such as the Temptations, Gladys’s Knight & The Pips, Earth, Wind & Fire, Muddy Waters, and B.B. King. As a teenager, Jackie discovered a completely new and different world of music. During her teenage years, new sounds began to hit the airwaves like Rap, Heavy Metal, Rock, Rock and Roll, and Country (when it was country). Jackie was not the typical black teenager who limited herself to just one genre. She had to feel it all. She knew her root stemmed from R&B, Blues & Soul, but new sounds where around. Jackie received inspiration from Gun’s & Rose’s, James Taylor, Karen Carpenter, Jimmi Hendrix, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and anything that caught her attention. That was back in the day when the music was real. The instruments were all played live and were paired with good old-fashion stage entertainment, when singer really sang. Those where the good ole days.

Jackie has been a part of the music through different generations. She has had the honor of singing on the same stage with some of music’s great names such Cookie McGee, Big Foot Johnson, Blue Lisa, Blind Sam (RIP), Buddy Miles, Chuck Rainey the list could go on with different sounds and genres that she has experienced in music. Jackiehas quite a singing background. She has performed with one of the biggest names in music …Barry Manilow. She has participated and sang in sold out events all over the country including venues like The Starplex, Scotts Centers, Academy of Arts and Letters, Majestic Theaters, Convention Centers. Through experience, Jackie has develop her own mixed and versatile ways of expressing music, bringing to light her unique interpretation of music. Jackie says she cannot put her music in a certain category or genre. She can only go where the music takes her. She just wants her music legacy to be a good, wholesome, and long lasting image and one day to be considered in the same class as her past time favorites.

Jackie wants her music and her voice to continue to warm hearts twenty years from now. She wants to be like Miss Tina Turner, Gladys’s Knight, Michael Jackson (RIP), Prince, Luther Vandross (RIP), Queen Aretha, James Brown (RIP), Isaac Hayes (RIP) Freddy Mercury (RIP), and John Lennon (RIP) who are all pioneers and prime examples of what good music is all about.