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After leaving Europe for more than 5yrs. Due to
Habaka’s mother taking sick, she returned to
Italy to continue her singing career.
On a hot summer night while attending a dinner
party, Habaka met a young woman that would
change her life forever.
And just like that her Holiday Album entitled
“Back in the city…It’s Christmas” came to life.
The cover sketched by Art Professor and friend
Francesco Mazilli of the city of Cremona, Italy
where Habaka has been living for quite some
So being that she had returned back to the City
that she loved and where she had nearly been
adopted as an International recording artist
Habaka decided to dedicate the album cover to
the city of Cremona, and the sketch was
actually inspired by a sketch of Cremona from
As for these wonderful Christmas Classics that
were recorded by Habaka, that part was easy,
and she chose the Christmas classics that she
had grown to love and adore as a child and
recorded them in the key of jazz.
Anyone that has known or followed Habaka’s
career knows that whenever asked the question
what does she wish to convey to her audience
when she’s performing, her answer has always
been quite simple in one word “Love” as a
matter of fact whenever she’s talked about you
will hear of that incredible voice that pierces
you straight to the heart.
Habaka being a romantic did just that with her
album entitled “I Will Wait For You” where she
takes you on a journey of all of the ups and
downs of that thing we call Love, and in
particular on two of her original songs Habaka
and Paul Gross penned “Faded Memories”
which takes you down memory lane with an old
school feel, while her second original song
entitled “Paradox” penned by Habaka and
music by Marco Pieri here Habaka collaborated
with her father Melvin Jackson whom was the
saxophonist of the great B.B. King, this is a real
treat to hear father and daughter exchanging
their God given talents and love for one another
and Habaka even sings in a mixture of Italian
and English.
Both “Back in the city…It’s Christmas!” and “I
Will Wait For You” are being distributed
through the Tate Music Group of Oklahoma.