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Jacqueline, welcome to Chatterbox. How are you?
I'm wonderful. Thank you very much for having
me. It's a pleasure to be here. Oh, that's great.
And thank you. I got introduced, yes, we were
just saying our fair literally then. God introduced
you by Chris Spira of Space Angel Music and he
sent some of your songs along, you know, for
consideration for a Chatterbox show that we,
for the Chatterbox show which you are now on,
and also for Hit or Miss, which is a lovely little
show where we basically, we play 12 songs a week
it is now. Season 4 is just starting and you'll
be featured on that with a couple of your songs
and the audience and a panel decide whether they
think your song will be a hit or a miss. I love
it. There we go. So that's how it works. The
winning song each week goes straight through
to the season final and the second and third
place songs each week go and they end up fighting
it out again in one of two semifinals. So that's
what happened to your songs and I heard some
and I thought... I like this girl. Yeah, we'll
get her on for an interview. And there we go.
So that's where we are. Thank you for having
me. It's great. Did you did you listen to in
particular? Well, I will tell you those one second.
So I've been looking at your website as well.
Here we go. Jacqueline and do do do do do hooked
on you. I liked and so it goes. Rogue waves.
One more time. I've got a feeling I've listened
to some more, but I think you've heard I'm done.
And then there was a recent song that we just
released called Let's Close Our Eyes, which is
which is my latest release. And actually, when
I'm finished with you this afternoon, I'm on
a roll right now and just really enjoying the
whole writing process. I think a lot of it has
to do with the people that I'm collaborating
with right now here in Miami. the music is just
coming out like better than I could have hoped
for. It's been such a great evolution. So I'm
actually leaving after this interview with you
to a studio here in Miami called After Hours
to record a new song called Broken Glass, which
I cannot wait to send to you so that you can
perhaps play for your listeners. Is that already
completed? It's completely completed. I was in
the studio on Monday. two different studios here
in Miami, working with a gentleman, two time
Grammy award winner, his name is Marlo Rosado.
And a lot of it has to do with the rapport that
you have with your collaborator. He will sit
together at his keyboard in his studio and he's
so multi -talented and he will just... play a
progression of chords for me and say, do you
like this? And I'm generally like 1000 % loving
it. And he then says, okay, why don't we put
this together and we'll do this and I'll send
you the chords and then you write the lyric.
And so we've been doing this together. Now we're
on our fifth or sixth song. And so Monday we
were sitting together in the studio and I do
what we call a guide vocal for, I then take it
to my mixer, Andrew, who's wonderful and engineer.
in Miami. I'm sorry, go ahead. No, I was just
going to say, I thought you stopped. There's
a very slight delay, but that happens. I was
just going to say, if you can get that to me,
I will stick that in the interview when it goes
out. Oh, I will absolutely do that. Yeah, I will
do that. Yeah, we'll be releasing that one really
soon. It's called Broken Glass and it's more
of a, I like this one a lot because it's very
dancey and it's almost like a vintage retro kind
of a disco kind of a great vibe. So I'm excited
about it. It's a little edgy as I like to call
some of my songs. That's brilliant. No, that
is absolutely brilliant. I like that. Now, looking
at your website, you do have a great website
and we do your social media right at the end,
so everybody knows. Born in L .A. and you've
already mentioned Miami, you were raised in Miami,
but it's quite a story really. So what were you
listening to as a kid? What was being played
at home? What were your influences? Oh, you know,
and there was so much. Thankfully, I had an older
sister who was 10 years older, so she would play
the Beatles. would play Carole King, who's one
of my icons and favorite songwriters of all time,
James Taylor, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie
Nicks, Christine McGree, very big influences
on my growing up years listening to great music.
And just, and current artists are, you know,
aplenty, a lot of them from the UK that I absolutely
adore, Amy Winehouse and Adele and Well, these
guys are not British. But anyway, those are a
few of the ones that I love listening to growing
up. And yeah, I used to sit and play my Carole
King record until there was no more grooves left
in the record on repeat. So yes, that was it
was fun growing up. I lived in LA till I was
I was six and then my family moved to Miami Beach.
So I but I've always gone back and forth. So
I have a lot of the fact the and so it goes album
that you just mentioned several of those songs
that you've listened to. I recorded at Westlake
Studios in Los Angeles. And this was the studio
where Michael Jackson recorded his Thriller album.
So you can imagine the great energy and vibration
walking into these studios and being able to
record music there was a thrill. Must have been.
Must have been. It was. It was. Must have given
you extra energy or something just knowing that.
Absolutely. Well, the other another little side
tidbit is today I'll be at the studio, a studio
here in Miami called After Hours, and the owner
of this studio actually uses the same board that
the Bee Gees used to do all of their music on.
So it's all good. It's great. Good energy for
me. Yeah, love it. Absolutely. Absolutely. Tell
us, when did you bring your first song out, your
first single out? When was that and which one
was it? Okay, well now we're talking true evolution.
This was a song called the kiss and Well, so
just to back up a little bit, I met Chris while
I was with a little band, a little trio at the
Hard Rock in Fort Lauderdale. I had a gig there.
I was on their calendar monthly. So Chris came
in and the gentleman that I was working with
at that time, a wonderful bass player, also here
from Miami named Jose Garcia, said to me, you
know, we're doing so well together. You love
to sing. Obviously you're a good singer. And
he said, would you be interested in writing?
you have any interest in writing? And I was like,
Sure, I would I would love to put my my pen to
paper and see what I can come up with. And so
the first song that I came up with is a song
called the kiss. And do you want to know the
background for the kiss? Please, please. So yes,
it the guy that I was dating at the time, obviously,
I ultimately began dating. It was really this
this first time meeting with him and and kind
of like, just looking at that face and instantly
wanting to kiss him. So from that, fortunately,
I did go on to date him and we are now married
for many years. It works. Perfect. That's the
first one. And it just goes from there. And as
you can imagine, the relationship shifts and
changes. So it brings out all kinds of good songwriting.
That's brilliant. This is Twinkle, she loves
saying hello to everybody. Hi Twinkle, what a
cutie. She runs around, everyone she wants, you
know, now she's done it, she's fine. Everyone's
met her. Even Pete Best from The Beatles, the
first drummer, even he's met her. Oh, that's
fabulous. Everyone, literally. Okay, let's talk
about... Live music. I mean, concerts, gigs.
I mean, do you do some of that? Have you done?
Is it bars? Where is it? Many live appearances
in the past. I was actually performed on the
Sunset Strip in California and West Hollywood
at several of the venues there. Definitely worked
at the Hard Rock, as I had mentioned before.
That was an ongoing thing. Of lately, I've been
asked to do private events, which I've been happy
to lend my voice to, along with a great band
that I work with here in Miami. And then, you
know, I don't know if you can see my piano in
the background. Beautiful grand piano. Yeah,
I'd love to have just, you know, these wonderful
musicians here in Miami come over and we will
jam together. And if an opportunity exists, I
would love to go out and do some great more,
you know, some more performing live. Well you're
certainly putting it out there in the USA as
establishing yourself and with that wonderful
website you've got and there's a nice big section
of music as well as the bit about your life and
everything else. Let's just talk about the other
side of the pond as in my side. Is it just quite
new to you, the UK, like through shows like my
own, or have you already been getting established
here with various radio stations already? I have
not, I have only, I mean, I absolutely love coming
over to your side of the pond. I have very dear
friends who live in London and at any opportunity
that I can get to come and visit them and see
the city and enjoy the restaurants and the culture
and the museums is joy, it's pure joy. So no,
so in answer to your question, this is my very
first interview with a UK radio station and it's
an absolute joy. to join you, so I'm thrilled.
Oh, thank you. We got a first. I'm very pleased.
Yes, you did indeed. The premier of Jacqueline
in the UK. But yes, it's a nice, nice big platform.
As I said to you before, it's over 200 radio
stations, including FM in London. So there you
go. So let's hope. I love it. Thank you so much
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Moving on, now we've got this new release which
you're going to send to me. Let's look it slightly
into the future. Maybe we could say six months
or even a year's time, whichever you prefer.
And if you were to come back onto Chatterbox,
what would you like to be telling me you've achieved?
You know, your timing is impeccable to ask this
question. So I'm at the threshold now. I have
been what my collaborators would say quite lazy
in the social media world. I just, I don't know
what it is. Maybe it's just not my genre. I shouldn't
say that because I truly am proud of the music
that I have written that I put out, truly am.
And I think the shift for me at this stage is
that I do... I do intend to have a much broader
base of listeners and an audience. And in order
to achieve that, as you know, as you well know,
in the music industry today, it requires a lot
of social media and a lot of putting yourself
out there and having a spotlight shown on you.
So I am in the process of working with somebody
from my collaborators here who have just been
insisting. And I have been reluctant and they're
saying, you know, Jacqueline, enough of if you're
sitting back and just listening or having your
own little fan base or your friends and family,
this music is too good to not. So I intend to
say that in six months time, there will be a
much broader audience than my music that I am
so deeply proud of. And I do feel listeners would
enjoy listening to it. It will increase and it
will definitely, it'll pay itself forward in
that way. what you've done already sounds fantastic
I mean it wasn't a question of you know sometimes
you get set I mean obviously if Chris Spearer
sends me something I do listen to it anyway because
he doesn't just touch anyone you know but I was
sold straight away I was thinking oh this is
this is this is good So listen to the next one
and the next one and the next one. So, you know,
they are good songs. So you've really got the
standards already there. You believe in what
you do and it's great what you do. So, you know,
so I definitely do. I think that most of this
is just stemming from the evolution of of of
just getting better at the skill of songwriting
and understanding, you know, what works, what
doesn't work, you know, the little nuance. that
we put into our music today and the storytelling.
To me, it's just joyful. It's my passion. Yeah,
sure. And the whole, what do we call it now,
sort of all the different platforms there are,
social media. Now, I mean, I sort of got sold
to a lot of it now, but I mean, I'm like, oh,
I'm 56 now. So, you know, yeah I'm one of these
sort of generations that eventually got onto
Facebook eventually about 2011 and things like
that and things like that and I dread to think
how old I was when I sent my first email I dread
to think that I wasn't that young but It's such
a massive... and there's so much of it as well.
I've got myself on Instagram and Facebook's good.
We've got Mixed Cloud here so the radio stations
go up and all the songs are left in place because
they do a certain thing with copyright and they
pay the copyright people upfront and we can play
three or four songs in one hour of the same artist.
So basically, eventually, it will filter back
to you from the British... side and that's great
that we got mixed cloud as well so you know linkedin
and all these other ones and oh so many i've
just discovered a few more recently but uh yeah
social media yeah it's incredible years ago years
ago you would well we we would either be having
this interview I've a very crackly landline call
and we'd probably lose each other twice it'd
be so expensive but we could see each other we
could it's incredible now so all of that plugging
and all those in just say you were coming to
the UK for a national tour you would be going
from radio station to radio so you'd be going
from Brighton to London to Manchester to Liverpool
No, this is exactly the way that artists musicians
had, you know, did it. They had to convince the
DJ, the disc jockey at the radio station to first
listen to the song because, you know, that's
the first part. And then secondly, whether the
disc jockey likes it enough to say, okay, I'll
give it some airplay. And then, you know, like
you're saying, and then you track to the next
radio station. Yeah, no, we are definitely living
in a much easier world with all the social platforms
that are out there now. I just need to, you know,
I've been on the bandwagon, but very, very, you
know, remotely, like, I don't really, like, I
don't throw it out there for people to say, oh,
I was in the studio today. Like, quite honestly,
does everybody like to know if somebody was in
the studio today? I guess, you know, I guess
so. Yeah, but it is something that I definitely
now know is paramount and it's gonna go full
thrust and full speed ahead because the music
is just too good and the musicians that I'm working
with are so multi -talented and they're only
bringing out more talent in me or creating more
of a thrust for me to dig deeper, to write. clever
lyrics and to come up with a different way of
saying something that someone else has already
said a million times and then add the nuances
and add the oohs and the ahs and just to make
it sexy and appealing and something that we want
to listen to. Well, at the end of the day, yes,
I guess. Posting that you've been in the recording
studio today is important to the extent that
it's positive. People know that you're active
and you're busy and things. So probably, yes,
it is a good thing. You don't think of it that
way. It's a positive post, isn't it? You're doing
something, you're busy. It is. It absolutely
is. And it took me a moment to really realize,
and I've been doing this for 10 years now, so
it's not like I'm just beginning to walk into
a studio. I mean, it's my most comfortable place
to be, quite honestly. I am at my happiest in
front of a microphone and pouring my heart out
and thinking about the images of the lyrics that
I'm writing and what brought me there. It just
gives me a high. I guess I shouldn't just be
doing this for myself. I should actually like
share that with others. So yeah. What is it called?
Late to the party or something? I don't know.
All good though. At least I have a lot of beautiful
content now. So I do feel comfortable having
that. And it's not like I'm just having to find
things to share. They're there. I think next
time we chat, we must meet up again. And I think
next time we chat, we go for a bit longer, because
you've got another interview. I've got one coming
up. But what I do, I think we put aside. I'll
just say an email when we arrange it. And I say,
maybe we should do 45 minutes or even 45 minutes
to an hour if you've got the time next time we
chat. And we go a bit more in depth about albums
and stuff like that. And Sue, my partner, she
does the interviews as well. She should be in
on that one as well. Yes, we must do something
next year for sure. But before I let you go...
Sue loves your hair, by the way. She says it's
wonderful. Thank you, Sue. So, let's do your
social media thing. Let's start with your website,
JacquelineBMusic .com. Now, J -A -C -Q -U -E
-L -Y -N -B Music .com. We click on that and
we're on your home page. Well, there's everything.
There's music, there's lyrics, there's lots of
photos, videos and things like that. But if we
were to scroll down on that home page, we've
got the links to a load of your social media
such as Twitter, X. You've got your Facebook
link there and you've got your YouTube link there
as well to your channel. What other social media
do you have that you'd like to share with our
listeners? Instagram, I guess that would be the
only other one. And currently what we're going
to be doing is mainly Instagram, YouTube, and
Facebook. So going forward, yeah, that'll be
the three that we'll focus on. Yes. That's fantastic.
And I'm going to look forward to editing this
and receiving your new songs. So get that to
me as soon as you can. That'd be wonderful. I
will do that. All right. It was such a pleasure
to meet you. Pleasure to meet you too. Thank
you so much for your time. Great to meet you
last. Thank you. All the best. Bye bye now. Bye.
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