“It’s all about romance when Jackie sings,”

says one of her fans.  She weaves her original songs from her album MAMA LOOSE through an astonishing playlist of close to one hundred and fifty covers including La Vie En Rose,  Gracias A La Vida as well as touching renditions of Desperado and  To Live Is To Fly.   She even does her own unique adaptation of Fever that gives it a folksy, teasing quality that rescues it from the smoke and feathered boas of lost lounges.

Whether it’s the romance you have or the one you long for, she touches a deep chord when she performs in small café’s and private clubs in her home town of New York and near her retreat in Hope, Idaho. 

She grew up in Greenwich Village around the cafes, during the 'beatnik' era of the 50's and 60's, the daughter of two artists who met at Cooper Union. She studied classical piano from 6 years old and tells the following story;

“I  think I was about 7 when I sat on the piano bench next to family friend, Milt Okun (of Cherry Lane Publishing), as he explored arrangements of Puff The Magic Dragon for Peter, Paul and Mary. I thought Jackie Paper was  me...and in a sense it is about all of us and the loss of childhood fearlessness and creativity.  Songwriting and singing is my way to  rejoin Puff and once again visit mighty kings and princes.”

She was at the High School of Music and Art when Janis Ian, a year ahead of her, released Society’s Child and she has been a student of the poet/songwriting craft ever since. 

After a long journey through a white collar professional career, Jackie turned to focus on song writing and performing.  In 1998 she released her first self-published album of original songs.  Then for several years she performed with an all-woman bluegrass band called “Local Honey.” Subsequently she performed every Sunday over the course of three years at the Hope Market Café in Northern Idaho. She worked with  producer Wade Tonken on her new album at the Manhattan Producer’s Alliance in New York City  Professional songwriter, Alex Forbes commented about her song “Maybe It’s Me”: “ It’s beautifully poignant, emotionally very real, skillfull, heartfelt, classy.”  

“During the last ten years I have been on a path of taking things apart to get to my own sources of inspiration; exploring an internal landscape that is sometimes foreign, sometimes dark - but always beautiful in song.  After all, it is like the writer Amanda Cross said, ‘Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.’”