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Jacqueline Grace

Last year’s winner for “Best Dance Single” at the Los Angeles Music Awards., Jacqueline Grace, a sultry, stunning twenty-three year old singer/songwriter of Filipino/Mexican extraction, grew up on the sunny beaches of San Diego, graduated from the University of Southern California, and mixes it all up again in her new album, "A Global Soul". Few American pop performers take the idea of global pop hip-hop so literally. Her songs reflect gypsy worldliness and humanity as well as her own sharp wit and insight. Her new album, "A Global Soul" is a blend of pop hip-hop with an intelligent old-world edge. She writes about ambition, upbeat and aggressive, and takes the talk to the dance floor. “The music takes you or breaks you.” Nominated for the “Best Pop Vocalist” at the 2007 Los Angeles Music Awards, Jacqueline Grace uses her clear and powerful, sweet and beautiful voice to sing us a series of simple inspirational equations in three languages, including a blend of Tagalog: “It takes just one heart beating but it makes us start to see in each other that we’re the same voice.” Her words and music well up hopefully, introducing subtle variations, despite the clear implication that romance is not a straightforward dance. It’s just what people all over the world do every day, and it’s for all those people Jacqueline Grace is singing.