Jacqueline D. Tabor

Jacqueline Tabor translates her music in an emotional yet understated delivery that always tells a story. Jacqueline has been performing professionally for 6 years and loves the music she performs. Tabor allows the audience to experience the words in a song with passion, soul and love. In the past, she has performed in many venues throughout Louisiana, and Northern Florida. As an a native of the Greater Seattle area, Jacqueline was taught by legendary Jack Halm in her early years and who currently remains a director of music in the Bellevue School District at Seattle Pacific University. During that time she took first place for vocals at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Competition three years in a row (1985-1988). After High School she studied Music and History at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she developed a deep understanding of jazz and the historical origins of the music she sings today. In the past, she has performed in few venues throughout Louisiana, and Northern Florida.

After taking a break to raise her children that now includes three children and a husband; she decided to migrate back to her native land Seattle, Washington where she was embraced with strong support of her family and friends to began singing seriously. So Jacqueline began performing in various competitions in greater Seattle and Tacoma areas. Then she studied voice with Cornish College of the Arts instructor and well known local jazz artist Andrienne Wilson, from 2003 to March 2005 where she flourished and gained confidence to take things to another level so she got the opportunity to perform in the nationally acclaimed top 100 Jazz Club called Tula’s in Seattle. So then she joined with the Black Lab Trio from March 2005 to December 2010. On March 21, 2011 Jacqueline was crowned the Kobe Jazz Queen Vocalist winner and in May visited and performed in Kobe Japan. Jacqueline has just finished her Debut CD titled “What a Wonderful World now available on CD Baby and iTunes. Here influences include Diane Reeves, Jill Scott, Adele, Mel Torme, and especially her all time favorite: Sarah Vaughan who I think was the best jazz vocalist of all time.

Awards

2011 Seattle Kobe Jazz Queen

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