Album Notes

Zhaklin (French pronunciation of Jacqueline) was only five years old when she cried for her mother to buy her a piano. When looking back she doesn't even know where that urge for music came from, she just knew she wanted a piano. Soon after her mother got her the piano, she started playing by ear. When she was eight, her mother put her to music school where she would study piano, solfeg, and voice for seven years. She graduated music school when she was fourteen, a year later she and her mother moved to United States for permanent residency.

Zhaklin lost her father when she was five. He was killed in their house, so Zhaklin always felt her father's absence through her childhood. During that period music was her friend, she used music to feel happy, to grieve her sorrow. As a result of her painful loss, Zhaklin developed a strong passion to help children in need. She hopes through her music she can do just that.

Zhaklin always knew that music is what she wanted to do. Thus after graduating high school she attended community college where she received her AA degree and Music Certificate. Right after she transferred to California. State University of Northridge where she majored in Music Industry.

Zhaklin has a zest for life. She is filled with poetic thoughts and lyrics. Her life has demonstrated over and over again her fondness to articulate her powerful emotions and her sense of human tragedy and happiness and composite those rough ideal emotions and create her own sense of music. Zhaklin sees no limits in her ability to write and perform. Her drive comes naturally. She says," There are no boundaries in music, there are no corners or edges, music is an infinite and burning of each individual's desire and dreams."

As a child, Zhaklin has always been quiet the entertainer, always loving the spotlight. Not much has changed since than. Like her lyrics say in her song "...but still wish I could be the one someday, that role that little girl had made...."