Jackie Bristow

Singer-songwriter Jackie Bristow got going early and shows no sign of stopping. Her latest recording, the haunting and beautiful CRAZY LOVE, demonstrates her folk-pop vocals, smart songwriting style and seductive sound.

Inspired by a music teacher, Bristow began singing in choir at age 8 in Gore, a small rural town on the southern end of New Zealand’s South Island and home to that country’s country music Golden Guitar Awards. Encouraged by their grandmother, Jackie and her younger sister, Katrina, swept up a string of the awards, and by age 14, The Bristow Sisters were seasoned professionals and were performing across the island.

Three years later, Jackie had left high school and enrolled at the Invercargill Polytechnic Music School, where she hooked up with other local musicians and began writing songs and singing in pop and cover bands around the country.

In 1995, when Bristow moved to Australia, she worked as a nanny by day and a singer in often-lonely clubs by night, but she was developing as a songwriter (and co-writer) and performer and recording her own material. Five years later, a copy of a demo reached the desk of Australian music industry exec Michael Gudinski, who signed her to write for Mushroom Music and record for Liberation Records. She and Gudinski released several hit singles and a well-received debut album, THIRSTY, in Australia and New Zealand.

Bristow then went on to record a stunning album through Australian independent label Craving Records, CRAZY LOVE, 12 songs of her own (two co-written with Mark Punch) that sparkle with soul, authenticity and emotion.

Her songs have been used repeatedly in Australian film and television hits such as “The Secret Life of Us,” “Home and Away” and “Go Big,” and they have been recorded on more than half a dozen compilation albums. Her song, “This is Australia,” recently won Tourism Australia’s Song Competition and has been featured in a worldwide promotional campaign. She has toured with Madeleine Peyroux (January 2007), Art Garfunkel, Renee Geyer, Mark Seymour and Capercaille; in 2006, she opened a tour for Daniel Lanois, who crowed from stage, “She sings like a bird!”

Bristow has performed live and been interviewed on more than a dozen network and pay-TV programs in Australia and on radio stations throughout Australia and New Zealand. She and her work impress the media, with one writer calling her “truly talented… [She] captivates an audience musically, lyrically and, unquestionably, in delivery.”

For more information, visit www.jackiebristow.com, www.cravingrecords.com, www.mcguckinpr.com