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{{Short description|American jazz singer (1928–2014)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Jackie Cain
| image = Jackie & Roy.jpg
| caption = Jackie Cain and Roy Kral at [[Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society]], Half Moon Bay, California, 1982
| backgroundbirth_name = solo_singerJacqueline Ruth Cain
| birth_namebirth_date = Jacqueline= Ruth{{Birth Caindate|1928|5|22}}
| birth_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.▼
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|5|22}}
▲| birth_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|9|15|1928|5|22}}
| death_place = [[Montclair, New Jersey|Montclair]], New Jersey
| genre = [[Jazz]], [[vocal jazz]]
| occupation = Singer
| years_active =1947–2007 1946–2007
| label = =
| associated_acts = [[Jackie and Roy]]
}}
 
'''Jacqueline Ruth "Jackie" Cain''' (May 22, 1928 – September 15, 2014) was an American [[jazz]] singer known for her partnership with her husband in the duo [[Jackie and Roy]]. She was the sister-in-law of singer [[Irene Kral]].
 
==Life and career==
Born in [[Milwaukee]], Wisconsin, Cain was the daughter of an office furniture salesman who also managed a community theater. After her parents' divorce, she and her mother, who took a job with a photo-imaging company, moved to a rooming house. Cain first became interested in music through listening to the radio and performing in the chorus at her elementary school. While in high school she performed in an a cappella chorus during the school day and began performing on a children's radio show and with a band organized by a local music store in Milwaukee.<ref name="nyt"/>
 
At the age of 17, Cain accepted her first full-time job in music as a singer with Jay Burkhart's band.<ref name="Deming">{{cite web|last1=Deming|first1=Mark|title=Jackie Cain|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jackie-cain-mn0000127599/biography|website=AllMusic|accessdate=22 April 2017}}</ref> In 1947, at the age of 19, she was introduced to [[Roy Kral]] by Bob Anderson, a fellow member of the Burkhart band. The twocouple soon began performing together in clubs in Chicago, and in 1949 they married. They recorded nearly forty albums for multiple record labels, includingsuch as [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] and [[Verve Records|Verve]].<ref name="nyt"/>
 
Cain died at her home in [[Montclair, New Jersey|Montclair]], New Jersey, in aged 86, on September 15, 2014, offrom complications fromof a stroke she hadsuffered in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jackie-cain-20140918-story.html|title=Jackie Cain dies at 86; part of the jazz duo Jackie and Roy|date=17 September 17, 2014|work=latimes.comLos Angeles Times|accessdateaccess-date=18 September 18, 2014}}</ref>
 
==Critical reception==
[[Douglas Martin (reporter)|Douglas Martin]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' called Jackie and Roy "the most famous vocal duo in jazz history".<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/arts/music/jackie-cain-of-the-jazz-duo-jackie-and-roy-dies-at-86.html?ref=obituaries|title=Jackie Cain, of the Jazz Duo Jackie and Roy, Dies at 86|date=September 18, 2014|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=[[Douglas Martin (reporter)|Douglas Martin]]}}</ref>
 
==Discography==
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'''With others'''
* George Davis Quartet, "Jubilee"/"I Only Have Eyes for You" ([[Aristocrat Records|Aristocrat]], 1947)<ref name="Davis">{{cite web|title=George Davis Quartet Vocal By Jackie Cain - Jubilee / I Only Have Eyes For You|url=https://www.discogs.com/George-Davis-Quartet-Vocal-By-Jackie-Cain-Jubilee-I-Only-Have-Eyes-For-You/release/9244509|website=Discogs|date=July 1947 |accessdate=22 April 2017|language=en}}</ref>
* ''Everything I Love'', Bill Kirchner (Evening Star, 2004)
* ''85 Candles: Live in New York'', [[Marian McPartland]] ([[Concord Jazz]], 2005)<ref name="AM credits">{{cite web|title=Jackie Cain {{!}} Credits|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jackie-cain-mn0000127599/credits|website=AllMusic|accessdate=22 April 2017}}</ref>
 
==Sources==
* [[Richard Cook (journalist)|Richard Cook]] & [[Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|Brian Morton]]: ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD'', sixth edition, London, Penguin, 2002
 
==References==
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[[Category:1928 births]]
[[Category:2014 deaths]]
[[Category:American femalewomen jazz singers]]
[[Category:American jazz singers]]
[[Category:Musicians from Milwaukee]]
[[Category:Musicians from Montclair, New Jersey]]
[[Category:Singers from Wisconsin]]
[[Category:21st-century American women singers]]
[[Category:21st-century American singers]]
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