About Blackwoman
Jacqueline Amos was Born in Harlem, Author, Poet, Artist and R@B singer, Jacqueline surrounded her self with the exceptional expertise musicians and vocalist, she begin singing at the age of 18, trained at Medgar Evers College, Jacqueline started gigging at an early age, it prepared her for the new revolution of Blues and Jazz, her creativeness didn’t stop at being a blues singer, it took her to another level of education. Jacqueline a graduate of Medgar Evers College minored and majored in Education and the Arts.
When I think about the poet and Author Jacqueline Amos, I often reflect on the times of Cotton Club Comes To Harlem with Lady Blues, Billy Holiday, the reflection sends a light of the times of the 1940’s, the horns that plays from the direct spirit of Blues, and the sounds of the pass, which reverts through the mike of Lady Blues Jackie, this vibrant cry, take me to the cotton club brings the applauds from the audience, Jacqueline not only a literarily writer but a composer who gets down and dirty at times, singing the flows of which she refer to her ancestors, the cries from the mike, my mama done told me, I was a country girl, but I took a chance on the silver meter to release my pain, through this heroic symposium, of blues and poetic compositions, she let the world feel the revolution of composition.