Name: Jackie Venson

Age: 29

I live in: Austin, TX

1.Tell us about you. What do you do for living? Your study?

I play guitar and sing my own original music for a living. I studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston from 2008-2011, my principle instrument was piano at that time. I graduated in 3 years, moved back to Austin, picked up the guitar and built my career on the guitar.

2.You are a musician and a singer. When and how do you start to do this?

My Dad is a retired professional musician, growing up I observed him as he ran a band and played music professionally. My mother signed me up for piano lessons when I was 8 years old and I ended up falling in love with the instrument and with music as a whole. The combination of learning music as a child and observing my father play professionally inspired me to build my own music career.

3.Best satisfaction in your work?

Having a successful tour and playing packed shows. Whenever a show goes well, everything in life seems perfect.

4.Which is your favorite singer?

Female: Whitney Houston, Male: Stevie Wonder

5.Dream in the drawer?

Making a full living off of music and being able to fund my career and projects with less stress.

6.How do you imagine yourself in 20 years?

Touring still, releasing new music but also maybe producing younger artists and helping out younger bands in some way.

7.If you look carefully at yourself in the mirror, what do you see?

A hard worker, a woman who really cares about doing something with her life, and a little girl who really loves music.

8.Your advice to those who want to do your job?

However hard folks tell you the industry is, it’s even harder than that. You need to want it to the point where you’re obsessed and will not stop until you achieve your goals.

9. Do you believe in God?

Yes, but not in the organized religion way. I just believe there’s a higher power and I accept that anything beyond that is theory, personal belief, and completely unique to every individual.

10. What are the worst and best sides of your character?

Best: I work really hard and I don’t half-ass anything. I take my job very seriously and my work ethic is intense. Worst: The same intensity often translates into extremely high expectations for myself and others and sometimes I scare people away because of this.

11.What do you think about Italy?

I hear it’s beautiful, that it’s the best food in the world, and I really can’t wait to come there and play music some day.

12.Where do you go to feel at peace with yourself?

My rehearsal space or a recording studio. I am most at peace when I am working.

13.The best gift you would like to receive?

Some career changing opportunity that bumps me to the next level.

14.Are you optimistic or pessimistic?

It depends on my mood. I am usually right in between and I never let myself get too far to one side, I like to consider myself realistic.

15.What is the thing that makes you more angry?

When people over promise and under deliver.

16.An happy memory of your childhood?

Riding bikes around the neighborhood with my friends, going on adventures and feeling as though I was free and independent even though I was a child.

17.Do you like traveling? A place that you have loved?

Yes I love traveling, my favorites places so far are Alaska and San Diego.

18. The 3 favorite songs?

As by Stevie Wonder

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Teardrop by Massive Attack

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Book of Love by Peter Gabriel

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19.If you could enter a picture in which you would like to enter?

The photo with Martin Luther King Jr when he was making the “I Have a Dream” speech.

20.When was the last time you thought “I’m a lucky person”?

Yesterday when I got home from tour and i was hanging out with my fiancee, decompressing. I’m so lucky to have so many supportive people in my life.

21.What are the most important qualities in your work?

Reliability, professionalism, and intelligent music.

22.From whom do you draw inspiration for your music?

Life and the stuff I go through as well as observations on what’s happening in the world.

23.Can you tell us about the place where you live? Best and worst side of your country?

The USA is a huge country, both by land mass and population. There’s no one way to describe any area of it and usually what I expect doesn’t end up being true. The best thing about this country is the beautiful diversity in both culture and experience, the worst is how divided we can be as a population but I believe that we are always improving in this way.

24.And about people?

best thing about people is that most people I meet are inherently good and honestly want to do good. The worst thing about people is that they tend to be lost or asleep, as in they have inherent goodness in them however they don’t have the confidence or drive to really go out and make a difference.

25.A phrase or quote that represents you?

Keep on keep on

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