Musical Prodigy Has Recorded
Her Debut Album
DMN Newswire--2008-8-25--Singer/songwriter and musical prodigy
Jacqueline Nassar has recorded her debut album at Ardent Studios
in Memphis, with producer and engineer Pete Matthews, assisted
by Nick Redmond. The gifted 17 year-old native of Clarksdale,
Mississippi, has been playing guitar since the age of 8 and has
won numerous awards and commendations for her astonishing abilities.
Nassar graduated from the Arts and Education Program at the
Delta Blues Museum in 2000 as Most Outstanding Student. While
with the band "Blues Prodigy," she won the WC Handy
Kids Foundation Award. An ambitious performer, she has opened
in concert for B.B. King, Rebecca Lynn Howard, and numerous others.
Nassar wrote, sang, and played all of the instruments on her
MySpace website.
In 2004, Nassar won the first Robert Johnson Foundation "Youth
Achievement Award," presented by Morgan Freeman and Robert
Johnson's grandson, Steve Johnson. At the ceremony, she was presented
with a Robert Johnson L-1 guitar by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.
