Jadee Slayton

Where Music Meets Soul
Just Help Productions
jadeeslayton.com

Jennifer D. Slayton, Jadee Slayton, Hearing Impaired Singer/Songwriter, Artist of All Kinds. Member of ASCAP. I have three demos of out Nashville, TN (though, that is not what I have playing here) I hold a managing Cosmetology License in the state of WV. I was nominated for inclusion in the 2007-2008 "Honors Edition" of the Cambridge Who's Who among Executive and Professional Women. In 2005-2007 I received top-seller status for the Non-Profit Org., Feed the Children for sales of my Original Artwork. I have received achievement awards for my Original poetry, which has been published to private collections. I worked hair/wigs with Bernia Ardia of Las Vegas on the Kiss Me Kate Musical. Besides music, I enjoy poetry, photography, and philanthropy.

I write, sing, and perform my Original Songs. I have loved music since childhood. When I was old enough, I was singing school Christmas songs in front of the tree during holiday time. All County Choir was my favorite subject in school..lol and I was singing in my spare time in church and such. I played the flute in junior high, but didn't care for it much. Now, I enjoy playing the guitar, electric and acoustic, and the piano and keyboard (the piano is my favorite instrument)

Then, when I was seventeen, I started losing my hearing due to hereditary, progressive nerve deafness. I had to wear my first hearing aid, and I had to adapt with what that required of me. Change and acceptance of myself and what made me different. Now, my passion, the one thing in life I'd rather do more than any other, was unattainable (or so I had myself believing)....

I thought who hears of a singer who can't hear? The fear of needing my hearing to make music but not having it scared and discouraged me from following my dreams. I chose to express my artistic desires through other outlets that didn't require my hearing. Cosmetology was the beginning, then, I became an ebay powerseller for sales of my Original FireFly Artwork, The FireFly Painter (JadeeValleyGallery) I have sold over three hundred paintings worldwide to private and corporate collections. But still, no matter what I did, I still felt like something was missing. Like I wasn't doing the right thing in life, and it was making me miserable.

Then, in the past year, I realized....time was going by and I still had the same lifelong dream.....TO SING!! it was never going away, it wasn't fading or getting more faint in my heart...it was still there, the same it had always been my entire life. I wanted to sing and make music! As much as I love painting on canvas and creating artwork, it was boring me, and I would catch myself thinking of music. I was still afraid because of the hearing impairment, but finally I came to a conclusion...Music doesn't come from the ears, it comes from the heart and soul!

Equipped with with plenty of soul and lots of heart, I decided to follow that dream of mine! So here I am :) You can find my music videos on youtube under jadeevalley and jadeeslayton.

Thanks for stopping by my page! It means the world :D

Have a fabulous day ((smilez and huggz))

~jaDee~