About

This is a teeny hub for all things Jackie Dee Music, I am a creative with other orbits of creativity including art and relationship coaching. This site however is more or less a reflective look back on the musical contributions I’ve made .. I’m not currently performing or recording but that may change .. in any case it’s lovely to have you here and I’ve provided spotify links below to my three albums so you don’t have to search far to take a listen.

I’m chuffed that you’re interested enough to read this far.

may the music be with you always …

Love, light & peace 

JD xxx 

Who is JD.. the singer-songwriter?

I’m someone who dreams big, believes you ‘can do it’ and pushes herself on every level to achieve my goals. I’m a Sagittarian and a definite goal setter. 

I’m passionate, about relationships really, about what makes us who we are individually and together. I’m care about the things that matter, what we’re here to learn and how to express those things in the collective space we exist in, through the arts, through teaching, through listening and learning.

​I was born in Sydney, the third of four children. My parents had a troubled marriage, mostly because they married very young and were both born into troubled families with tragic histories. I was ten years old when they finally separated.

​By 13 I had landed myself a vocalist/keyboard spot in a school band, and my love of music just grew. Being around musicians and other creative types was always where I felt most at home, most free, most me.

​It was not until my 20’s however that I began penning songs of my own and there were many left on the studio floor (so to speak). When I won a first place in a songwriters comp in 2007, that gave me the boost I needed to follow my dream of not just performing my own songs but recording them.

Tide (EP) was born in 2010 after my own marriage underwent a particularly difficult and tumultuous turn, leading to a period of separation. Thankfully, the gods wanted us together and we pulled through that time and remain together still, 29 years strong. ​I could not have been more thrilled with the result of working with Matt Fell on my debut EP, and as the album cover would suggest it was a case of dipping my toe in the water of writing and recording and it made me hungry for more.

My song writing evolved along with my confidence, I started doing more full band gigs which was both exhilarating and sometimes fraught. Performing independent original music is an uphill climb and the rewards are mostly long term if you can keep at it. 

In 2013 Doors and Windows was born, again produced by Matt and this, my first full length album was another triumph for me with crowdfunding making the project not only more feasible financially but also a driving motivation to deliver on a promise to my supporters. D&W is very much a biographical album revealing songs that speak about uncovering childhood traumas and finding lyric and melody to share the sentiments of these discoveries. It was quite a cathartic experience and feels like a complete piece of work.

Tragic struck my family on many levels in 2015 and 2016 motivating me to write and record my 3rd album Six String Heart. My mother was incarcerated for a period of two years, my stepfather was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer and thankfully survived and my brother John was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, he was given 4 months to live.. he lived (if you can call it that) for 4 months exactly. It was perhaps the biggest test of my strength, courage and determination to date. I was everyone’s main support person during this time while trying to work in a professional capacity as a counsellor and function as a wife and mother at home. Songwriting was my therapy.

I’m deeply proud of Six String Heart because of the depth of honesty and the endurance of difficulty that this album expresses for me. I hope you get a chance to listen and I hope it resonates with you in a ‘strength based’ way.