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Background information | |
Birth name | Jacqueline Cole Miskanic |
Born | Atlantic Beach, New York, U.S. | May 5, 1996
Genres | Pop |
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Years active | 2015–present |
Labels | Atlantic |
Spouse | Brave Gregg (m. 2023) |
Website | www |
Jacqueline Cole Miskanic Gregg (born May 5, 1996), [1] known professionally as Jax, is an American singer-songwriter and social media personality. Her 2022 single "Victoria's Secret" reached number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100. Her debut studio album, Dear Joe, was released on Atlantic Records on June 28, 2024.
Jax was raised in Atlantic Beach, New York, [2] [3] and moved with her family in 2005 to East Brunswick, New Jersey. [4] [5] She began singing at age 5. [6] Her father, John, a Catholic of Italian and Croatian descent, was a firefighter who was injured on duty during the September 11 attacks, and her mother, Jill, a Jewish woman, is a New York City school teacher. [7] After attending the East Brunswick Public Schools, Jax was homeschooled starting in the eighth grade in order to allow her sufficient time for voice lessons, performances, and recording. [8] [9]
In mid-2014, she studied at New York University in London, where she won a John Lennon Scholarship in songwriting through the BMI Foundation. [10] She earned a bachelor's degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology. [11]
In 2015, Jax auditioned for the fourteenth season of American Idol , with the song "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles. [12] She sang "Toxic" by Britney Spears for her first solo audition during Hollywood Week, and sang The Beatles' "Let It Be" for her final solo performance. She was the only contestant out of 80 to be declared safe immediately after the performance. [10] She performed Janis Joplin's "Piece of My Heart" with Steven Tyler during the show's season finale. [13] Jax finished third in the competition, and her first single, "Forcefield", was released following the finale. [14] In July 2015, Jax and the other top five American Idol contestants embarked on the American Idols LIVE! Tour 2015. [15]
Jax's second single, "La La Land", was released on January 6, 2016, [16] along with her first music video. "La La Land" is about Jax's experience on American Idol. [17]
In 2017 she released the EP, Funny, which charted at number 17 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums. [18]
In January 2021, she signed a record deal with Atlantic Records. [19] In October 2021, her single "Like My Father" debuted at number 38 on the Billboard Adult Pop Airplay, her first song to chart on Billboard's charts. [20] The song reached 80 million streams on TikTok. [11]
In April 2022, Jax was named iHeartRadio's first-ever TikTok Songwriter of the Year. [11] That year, she released the single "Victoria's Secret." It charted at number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 15 on the Adult Contemporary chart, number 2 on the Spotify US Viral 50, and was certified Gold in the United States. It also charted in Australia, Ireland, Canada, Sweden, and New Zealand. [21] [22] The song was inspired by a girl Jax was babysitting, to write a song about body positivity that could inspire young girls. In an Instagram post, Victoria's Secret CEO Amy Hauk thanked Jax for "addressing important issues in her lyrics." [22]
Jax performed at every date on the 2022 iHeartRadio Jingle Ball tour, alongside artists including Jack Harlow, Black Eyed Peas, Khalid, Dua Lipa, Pitbull, AJR, Demi Lovato, Sam Smith, and Charlie Puth. [23]
Her next single, "Cinderella Snapped", [24] peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Pop Airplay chart. [25] In October 2023, Jax joined Canadian rock band Simple Plan for a re-recorded version of the track "Iconic" from their 2022 album Harder Than It Looks . [26] In 2024, Jax joined Simple Plan on their Australian tour, with We the Kings and Boys Like Girls. [27] On June 28, 2024, she released her debut studio album Dear Joe, on Atlantic Records. [28] It reached number 9 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart, [25] number 3 on the iTunes Pop Albums chart, and number 9 on Spotify's US Albums chart. [29]
On July 23, 2024, Jax released a series of TikTok videos with Haliey Welch. Jax has 14.5 million followers on TikTok. [30] In October 2024, through Musicians on Call and Hyundai Hope on Wheels, Jax teamed with Sam Hollander to write the song "Hope Lights the Way" in honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. [31]
In August 2016, Jax revealed that she was battling thyroid cancer. [2]
Jax married Brave Gregg in November 2023. [32]
Title | Details |
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Dear Joe, |
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Funny |
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Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||
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US [33] | US Adult [34] | US Pop [35] | AUS [36] | CAN [37] | NZ Hot [38] | UK [39] | WW [40] | ||||||
"Forcefield" | 2015 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | American Idol Top 3 Season 14 | |||
"La La Land" [41] | 2016 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | |||
"Come Home to Me" [42] | 2020 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
"I Can't Believe I Shaved My Legs for This" [43] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
"Papercuts" [44] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
"Bitchcraft" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
"Ring Pop" | 2021 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
"90s Kids" [45] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
"Like My Father" [47] | — | 33 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dear Joe, | |||
"I Feel Like a Kid Again" [48] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | ||||
"To All the Boys I've Loved Before" [49] | 2022 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
"U Love U" (featuring Jvke) [50] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
"Victoria's Secret" | 35 | 2 | 11 | 69 | 46 | 25 | 33 | 109 | Dear Joe, | ||||
"Cinderella Snapped" [54] | 2023 | — | 25 | 23 | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | |||
"Zombieland" (featuring Hardy) [55] | 2024 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Dear Joe, | |||
"A Song for Chelsea" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Title | Year | Album |
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"Iconic" [56] (Simple Plan featuring Jax) | 2023 | Non-album single |
Year | Song | Artist | Album |
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2019 | "B.F.A. (Best Friend's Ass)" | Paris Hilton and Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike | Non-album single |
2021 | "BDE" | Big Freedia feat. Jax and Marc Rebillet | Big Diva Energy |
2022 | "A Little Bit of Love" | Weezer | SZNZ: Spring |
2023 | "Scam Likely" | Jes Hudak | Non-album single |
2024 | "Psycho" | Hardy | Quit!! |
Awards | Year | Nominee | Category | Result | Ref. |
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IHeartRadio Music Awards | 2022 | Herself | Social Star Award | Nominated | [57] |
TikTok Songwriter of the Year | Won | ||||
2023 | Best New Pop Artist | Won | [58] |
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During the tour's stop in New Orleans, Jax turned 21 — on May 5 (Cinco de Mayo) [2017]
Atlantic Beach-raised singer Jackie Miskanic aka Jax...
Jax's family — parents John and Jill Miskanic, Jax, and her brother Matt — moved to New Jersey in 2005 from Atlantic Beach, Long Island, where Jax (born Jacqueline Miskanic)
Growing up on Long Island...
...she's 18 and she grew up on Long Island and in Jersey, the daughter of an FDNY firefighter and a city public-school teacher.
Home schooled since the eighth grade, Jax left the township school system to pursue her musical dreams. She performed, toured, took voice lessons with a renowned vocal coach (same as Lady Gaga) and practiced nonstop in her basement recording studio.
[I]t was the platform of a lifetime and it opened up all these doors for me. ... But at the same time it's not as glamorous as it looks. People don't know. There are things I'm sometimes bitter about, about the way things were handled. ... [The song is] the closest I can give you to a backstage pass.