Venessa Jackson

South Africa

208 albums 396 tracks

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VA - SUMMER 2026

on 26 Aug 2026 DBRS2026

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+ 21 more

Genres:

Nu-Disco / Soul / Funk + 3 more

16 tracks (1h 19m)

The Night feat. ( Remix)

The Summer Is Magic

on 14 Aug 2026 SPD0004

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+ 2 more

Genres:

Nu-Disco / Soul / Funk

The Summer Is Magic feat.

Free Your Love

on 10 Aug 2026 NGR475

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+ 2 more

Genres:

Soulful House

2 tracks (11m 26s)

Free Your Love (Vocal Mix)

Free Your Love (Dub mix)

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About Venessa Jackson

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Bio

Venessa Jackson’s first record came as a prize. At five, she won a dance competition and took home a Kool & the Gang vinyl; in a 2021 interview, the Durban singer recalled deciding that she wanted her own name on one someday. Her mother’s listening—stretching from country and reggae to soul—also shaped a voice that now travels freely through soulful house, disco, funk and Afro house. In the same conversation, Jackson described performing in community shows through school, working underground for years and dating the professional side of her career to an EMI opportunity in 2004. Self-taught, she said she was still learning from new productions arriving each week, following their melodies into unfamiliar keys. A catalogue of more than one hundred credits includes work for King Street Sounds, Quantize, Midnight Riot and Cleveland City, while later releases continue the same collaborative pattern across independent house labels.