Jennine Bailey

Vocalist

Jennine Bailey is a name synonymous with style and individuality in the New Zealand jazz and adult contemporary music worlds. Singer, performer and recording artist, Jennine puts her own soulful and unique stamp on every song she sings, and refuses to be defined or limited by one genre.

This Christchurch chanteuse seems to be going from strength to strength. Having recently headlined this years’ Christchurch Jazz and Blues Festival 2014, last year she headlined the 2013 Tauranga Jazz Festival, the 2013 Christchurch Jazz and Blues Festival and the 2013 Nelson Woollaston Jazz and Blues Festival with her Ella Fitzgerald Tribute show. Jennine also performed in the Joyfully Unmunted Festival celebrating the opening of the Transitional Cathedral. Jennine headlined the 2012 International Jazz Festival in Christchurch with her Women in Jazz show and in 2012 headlined a sold-out show for the Taste Jazz and Blues, and performed with Ray Wolf, Roger Fox and Midge Marsden in the Wellington Town Hall for a Christchurch earthquake appeal concert. Later that year saw Jennine performing at Nelson Opera in the Park to sixteen thousand people with the Wellington Vector Orchestra alongside such luminaries as Whirimako Black, Hollie Smith, Stu Buchanan, Tom Rainey and Doug Caldwell. Her Eva Cassidy Tribute show headlined in the 2011 Woollaston Nelson Jazz Festival, the 2010 Christchurch International Jazz and Blues Festival, and the 2010 Southland Arts Festival. These sold out shows saw the enthusiastic audiences respond with standing ovations. 

Jennine released her debut album ‘You go to my head’ in 2003, and in the same year was one of the three winners in an international jazz voice competition voted for by over 30,000 people world-wide. A versatile performer, Jennine gave a critically acclaimed performance in her first musical as Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar and has performed solos for Classical Sparks, Xmas in the Park and Starry Nights concerts across the country. Her next recording project is underway; a little delayed due to the Christchurch February 22nd earthquake.