This edition of the Chatterbox Redux podcast is brought to you in association with the Strong Coffee Company. More from them in a bit. Chatterbox. When the stars talk, they talk to Nick and Sue. Welcome back to the Chatterbox Redux Podcast and today our special guest is Jacqueline. This is Nick and Sue with Chatterbox giving you all you need to know about musical entertainment. Oh, yeah. Chatterbox, the best interviews with Nick and Sue. Chatterbox, the best news and reviews
for you on Chatterbox. And now, Chatterbox UK, we're just lucky enough to welcome Jacqueline. 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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remove CO2 from the atmosphere. This is Nick and Sue with Chatterbox, giving you all you need to know about musical entertainment. Chatterbox Chatterbox Chatterbox You're here because you deserve to be here. If you weren't any good you wouldn't be here so don't worry about it. Don't have to thank me, you've got yourself here really. 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
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