Jackie Ross
1 record in the archive · 1971
About the artist
Jaculyn Bless 'Jackie' Ross (born 30 January 1946 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American soul singer who began performing at the age of three on her preacher parents' gospel radio programme, moved to Chicago after her father's death in 1954, and was recruited by Sam Cooke for his SAR label, debuting with 'Hard Times' in 1962. Signing to Chess Records in 1964, she scored her defining hit with 'Selfish One', a number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100, followed by the album 'Full Bloom'; disenchanted over royalties and disputed masters, she left Chess in 1967 and recorded subsequently for…