| Jacquie Lee | |
| Birth Name: | Jacqueline Ann Lee |
| Birth Date: | 1997 6, mf=yes |
| Birth Place: | Colts Neck Township, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Years Active: | 2013–present |
Jacqueline Ann "Jacquie" Lee (born June 25, 1997) is an American singer and songwriter from Colts Neck, New Jersey. She is best known for being the runner-up of season five of NBC's singing competition The Voice in 2013 as part of Christina Aguilera's team and as a solo artist signed to Atlantic Records. Lee recently started releasing music mononymously under her given name, Jacquie.
Lee was born in Colts Neck Township, New Jersey to parents Denise and Richard Lee.[1] She attended Ranney School in Tinton Falls, New Jersey and has two siblings: an older sister named Nicole and a younger brother named Richie, who attends Cedar Drive Middle School.[2] She has Italian ancestry.[3]
See main article: The Voice (U.S. season 5).
At the blind auditions on September 24, 2013, Lee performed Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black," persuading Christina Aguilera and Blake Shelton to turn their chairs. Lee chose Aguilera and remained on her team the entire season. In the Battle rounds, Lee was paired with Briana Cuoco where they sang the song "House of the Rising Sun," and advanced. During the Knockout round, Lee sang "Stompa" by Serena Ryder against Anthony Paul and Christina selected her to move on to the Live Playoffs, sending Paul home. Lee continued through the Live Rounds and during the Top 5, got an iTunes bonus for reaching the Top 10 overall songs with her studio version of "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan. In the Finals, Lee again received an iTunes bonus from reaching the No. 9 position with her recording of the Jennifer Holliday song "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going." On December 17, 2013 she was declared to have come in 2nd place behind winner Tessanne Chin.
– Studio version of performance reached the top 10 on iTunes
| Stage | Song | Original Artist | Date | Order | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blind Audition | "Back to Black" | Amy Winehouse | September 24, 2013 | 2.1 | Christina Aguilera and Blake Shelton turned Joined Team Christina |
| Battle Rounds | "The House of the Rising Sun" (vs. Briana Cuoco) | Traditional | October 14, 2013 | 7.6 | Saved by Coach |
| Knockout Rounds | "Stompa" (vs. Anthony Paul) | Serena Ryder | October 28, 2013 | 11.4 | Saved by Coach |
| Live Playoffs | "I Put a Spell on You" | Screamin' Jay Hawkins | November 5, 2013 | 14.10 | Saved by Public Vote |
| Live Top 12 | "Love Is Blindness" | U2 | November 11, 2013 | 16.5 | Saved by Public Vote |
| Live Top 10 | "Clarity" | Zedd | November 18, 2013 | 18.2 | Saved by Public Vote |
| Live Top 8 | "Who's Lovin' You" | The Miracles | November 25, 2013 | 20.8 | Saved by Public Vote |
| Live Top 6 | "Cry Baby" | Garnet Mimms | December 2, 2013 | 22.6 | Saved by Public Vote |
| "The Voice Within" | Christina Aguilera | 22.11 | |||
| Live Top 5 (Semi-finals) | "Angel" | Sarah McLachlan | December 9, 2013 | 24.3 | Saved by Public Vote |
| Live Finale | "Back to Black" | Amy Winehouse | December 16, 2013 | 26.3 | Runner-up |
| "We Remain" (with Christina Aguilera) | Christina Aguilera | 26.5 | |||
| "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" | Jennifer Holliday | 26.9 |
After the show, Lee was signed to Lyor Cohen's Label, 300 Entertainment, in partnership with Atlantic Records.[4] She performed her debut single, "Broken Ones," on the Top 5 Results of season 6 of The Voice on May 13, 2014.[5] This was the first time the song was performed and her first time returning to the show since being a contestant. The song was released to iTunes the same day.[6] It was written by Dana Parish and Andy Hollander. Although the song did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, it managed to peak at number 36 on the Pop Digital Songs.[7]
Lee also took part in The Voice Summer Tour 2014, a summer tour starting on June 21 in San Antonio, Texas and concluding in Redmond, Washington on August 2, 2014.[8] She was joined by winner Tessanne Chin, finalist Will Champlin, season 1's runner-up Dia Frampton, along with season 6 Winner Josh Kaufman, runner-up Jake Worthington, and third place finalist Christina Grimmie. She was also joined by Kristen Merlin, a Top 5 finalist, and Jake Barker, a top 20 finalist.[9]
It was announced on September 29 that Lee would be releasing her 'Broken Ones' EP on October 21, 2014 and an iTunes pre-order was available on October 6. A lyric video for "Tears Fall" was premiered on October 10 on MTV.[10]
On April 20, 2015, the official music video for "Tears Fall" was exclusively premiered on MTV. The video was filmed at Zsa Zsa Gabor's mansion in Los Angeles, and was directed by Blair Waters.[11]
In early 2016, Lee was featured on Cash Cash's single, "Aftershock," which premiered on January 29, 2016.
Lee released a digital EP, The Only One, in late 2017. At this point, she started simply going by Jacquie, as opposed to Jacquie Lee.
She followed that up with two digital EPs in 2020, Infinity and Rinascita.
After working on early demos, Lee was cast as the singing voice of Tiera Skovbye's character, Polly Cooper, on the project Riverdale, with the episode "".[12]
Lee has cited her coach, Christina Aguilera, as a major influence.[13] She has referenced Aguilera as she stated, "[I]t was really surreal, and it was a dream come true because I always idolized her from the start." Lee has also cited Michael Jackson, Jackson 5, Nirvana and Lana Del Rey as influences.[14]
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverdale: Special Episode – Next to Normal: The Musical |
| — | — | ||||||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Current [15] | US Heat [16] | |||
| Broken Ones | 193 | 12 | ||
| The Only One |
| — | — | |
| Infinity |
| — | — | |
| Rinascita |
| — | — | |
| Protect My Peace |
| — | — | |
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| US | |||
| "Broken Ones"[17] | 2014 | — | Broken Ones |
| "Tears Fall"[18] | 2015 | — | |
| "Somebody's Angel"[19] | 2016 | — | Non-album single |
| "Am I the Only One"[20] | 2017 | — | The Only One |
| "California Dreaming" | — | ||
| "For You"[21] | — | ||
| "I Won't Break"[22] | 2018 | — | Non-album single |
| "They Don't Even Know My Name" | — | Hurricane Bianca: From Russia with Hate Soundtrack | |
| "Grim" (featuring Black Party) | 2019 | — | Infinity |
| "Break" | — | ||
| "Forever" | 2020 | — | |
| "Geppetto" | — | Non-album single | |
| "Red" | — | Rinascita | |
| "Chances" | — | ||
| "PSSY PWR" (with Jean Deaux) | — | ||
| "Five Two" | 2021 | — | Non-album single |
| "I'm a Bitch" | — | ||
| "Contour" | — | ||
| "Wycmf" | 2022 | — | Non-album single |
| "Snowman" | — | "Protect My Peace" | |
| "Porcellana" | 2024 | — | Non-album single |
| "Blade of Grass" | — |
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | ||||
| "Aftershock" (Cash Cash featuring Jacquie Lee) | 2016 | — | Blood, Sweat & 3 Years | |
| "I'm Done" (J.Kelr featuring Jacquie Lee) | 2018 | — | Corinthian Cadillac | |
| "Eden 2.0" (NoMBe featuring slenderbodies, Jacquie & Geneva White) | 2019 | — | Non-album single |
| Title | Other artist(s) | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | "Just Another Day" | Lili Reinhart, Mädchen Amick and Tyson Ritter | Riverdale: Special Episode – Next to Normal: The Musical | [24] |
| "Everything Else" | Lili Reinhart and Mädchen Amick | |||
| "It's Gonna Be Good" | Lili Reinhart, Mädchen Amick and Tyson Ritter | |||
| "I'm Alive" | Tyson Ritter | |||
| "I Am the One" | Lili Reinhart and Tyson Ritter | |||
| Single | Peak chart positions | Original artist | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [25] [26] | US Heat [27] | US Digital [28] | US Rock [29] | CAN [30] | ||||
| "I Put a Spell on You" | 116 | 22 | 54 | — | — | Screamin' Jay Hawkins | ||
| "Love Is Blindness" | — | — | 65 | 27 | — | U2 | ||
| "Angel" | 87 | 11 | 29 | — | 75 | Sarah McLachlan | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||||||