Judi Jackson

From her Spo­ti­fy pro­file:

Judi Jack­son is a mul­ti-tal­ent­ed vocal­ist from Roanoke, Vir­ginia. Judi has per­formed on a vari­ety of stages with a myr­i­ad of world-class tal­ents. Intro­duced to the world of music through the Jef­fer­son Cen­ter’s Music Lab, Judi spent her ear­ly years immersed in a school for young artists and musi­cians to learn, prac­tice, and per­form their tal­ents. At the age of 14 Judi was for­tu­nate enough to meet Wyn­ton Marsalis at the Jef­fer­son Cen­ter per­for­mance hall after a show. He sent her a box of music the fol­low­ing Christ­mas that became the seed of inspi­ra­tion for her devel­op­ment as a jazz vocal­ist.

She began lis­ten­ing to and study­ing the sounds of Blos­som Dearie, Bil­lie Hol­l­i­day, Sarah Vaughn, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzger­ald, and Mahalia Jack­son, amongst many oth­er greats. She con­tin­ued study­ing over the next sev­er­al years and start­ed gain­ing more expe­ri­ence as a per­former by open­ing for acts such as Mavis Sta­ples. Judi has shared the stage with Snarky Pup­py, and record­ed her orig­i­nal piece, “Only Love”, last Spring with the Gram­my award win­ning group.

[At the age of 24, Judi was] based in London/NY per­form­ing and col­lab­o­rat­ing on with sev­er­al musi­cians and record­ing her debut EP. She aspires to con­tin­ue per­form­ing as a vehi­cle for shar­ing love to all will­ing to receive it.

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In Feb­ru­ary 2022, Jack­son released her full-length debut album, Grace, on vinyl and CD. The album fea­tures sev­er­al stand­out tracks, includ­ing “Riv­er” and “Straw­ber­ry Lady.”

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