Jackie Jackson’s debut single ‘I Sing to You’ a song of resilience no matter what you’re going through

I have been singing since I was 13. I started off singing lovers rock in school corridors at lunchtime me and my friend putting on small concerts.

I was very shy and insecure and experiencing a lot at home so singing was my outlet and I believed I was ugly because I was constantly told I was ugly at home. I always grew believing there was nothing good about me but my voice.

After leaving school I became a teenage mom at 17 and by the age of 21 I had 3 children. Came to the Lord by the age of 23 but still the same insecurities then and way up to my 40s.

In 2006 I had a thyroidectomy because I had cancer on my thyroid. I couldn’t sing for over 2 years and as far as I was concerned this took away the one thing I thought I was good at…Singing.

When my voice came back by 2007 they operated again saying the cancer had came back and so my parathyroid was removed. Since then I felt I lost my voice forever although I would lead worship and sing solo when asked I became so insecure about my voice as I believed it had changed.

During lockdown I began to feel down and depressed about a lot of things and being shut in made it worse. I lived in the Midlands at the time and decided I needed to go back to my hometown for a while to be with my older children as it was just myself and my younger daughter and already feeling lonely and isolated I drove back to Manchester.

It was then that I felt I need to find Jackie and the only way I felt I could do that was to sing and record in my sons studio at his home. I needed to feel like that 13 year old girl again where I could sing.

I had a backing track that a friend had given me and I’d already loved the song. This song reminded me of how God had kept me throughout every season of my life…my childhood…my teenage years as a mom…my 20s when I got married still not believing I was good enough…my divorce…my cancer…and so much more…

This song reminded me that I was somebody and that God sees me as that. I am fearfully and wonderfully made. 

I recorded the song with my little croaky voice but I recorded it just for myself and for no one else to hear. My son shared it with someone who owned a radio station and it was played on another local radio station and there during lockdown people were brought to tears. People were healed…encouraged…blessed calling me texting me …it became the anthem to keep them going.

I on the other hand had always cringed at the sound of my voice hearing the croaks etc.

But I realised that God took this song to remind people that He is with them no matter what they have been through…going through and about to go through.  He is with us throughout every season of our lives.

This is a snippet of my testimony…there’s so much more…I hope more people will be blessed by this song.

Stream/Download ‘I Sing to You’ released November 2020