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Jaguar Wright is a soul/R&B vocalist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is part of the collective.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially in the case of fiery Philadelphia chanteuse Jaguar Wright. As notorious for her impassioned, spine-tingling vibrato as she is for her show-stealing performance at Jay-Z’s 1999 MTV Unplugged concert with The Roots, Jaguar is the quintessential maven. Her sophomore album, Divorcing Neo 2 Marry Soul, is appropriately titled because it not only rids her of the dreaded cloak of the manufactured category [tagneo-soul, but represents her musical and personal emancipation. “I am truly divorcing everything from before to start fresh and new,” says Jaguar, a married mother of two. “The title lets everyone know I’m divorcing the hype to marry the real. I don’t sell anything else but me, or what I believe in or feel. I am finally free to do me, free to do my work.”

As such a profound talent, it’s hard to fathom that the world may never have received Jaguar’s gift of song. Reared in the church, Jaguar’s staunchly religious parents did not initially support their daughter’s dream of becoming a “secular” singer. But the R&B dynamo knew she had tapped into something powerful when she managed to convert the most unlikely of converts - her teacher mom and drug counselor father. “My parents wanted me to take the more traditional route…by becoming a litigator, doctor or a practitioner; a professor or a psychologist,” says Jaguar. “My father hated that I was singing. It drove him insane, and now he is biggest fan because I earned his respect. I proved that this is not a dream, this was not a fantasy— this is my life. Singing was my destiny, even before I was born.”
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  • soulsugah

    Come back to us, Jaguar! I miss you so much.

    December 2011
  • mrsean20

    cool girl

    November 2011
  • soulsugah

    "Free" <3

    November 2011
  • headey

    Such a classy singer, I just wonder why there are so few listeners? I was expecting to see several hundred thousand. And lots more posts than this.

    September 2011
  • MsTasha29

    Grown Music right here.....She don't get her credit. This is real music at it's finest

    July 2011
  • atiredblackman

    absolutely awesome this is the 1st i've heard this & i m very impressed i'm jealous of u good_NES this would definetly b someone i would go c, most def

    February 2011
  • good_NES

    i saw her once live. it was incredible. never saw an artist like her. what she did with her voice- WOW!! she is unique, amazing..i love her

    January 2011
  • Blackstarr2012

    Extremely talemted... and FINE

    August 2010
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