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.
