Jacqueline Nemorin (known professionally as Jackie Carter and Né-Mo-Rin) is a
Mauritian-born British musician, composer and producer.
She was one of the voices and members of the 1970s
Silver Convention
Silver Convention were a German Euro disco recording act of the 1970s. The group was originally named Silver Bird Convention or Silver Bird.
Career
The group was initiated in Munich by producers and songwriters Sylvester Levay and Michael Kunze. ...
project.
Life
Jacqueline Nemorin was born to a pianist (her father) and a dancer (her mother) and later moved to London, England with her family. In the 1970s she moved to Germany, where she took on the pseudonym "Jackie Carter".
As a member of the Veit Marvos Red Point Orchestra from 1972 to 1974, she performed on stage with the then-unknown
Donna Summer. In addition, she began to work as a guest and studio singer for various artists.
In 1974, she was chosen to sing in
Michael Kunze
Michael Rolf Kunze (born 9 November 1943, in Prague) is a foremost German musical theater lyricist and librettist.
He is best known for the hit musicals '' Elisabeth'' (1992), '' Dance of the Vampires'' (1996), '' Mozart!'' (1999), ''Marie Antoin ...
and
Sylvester Levay's
Silver Convention
Silver Convention were a German Euro disco recording act of the 1970s. The group was originally named Silver Bird Convention or Silver Bird.
Career
The group was initiated in Munich by producers and songwriters Sylvester Levay and Michael Kunze. ...
, which would go on to be successful worldwide with their disco songs
Fly, Robin, Fly and
Get Up and Boogie
''Get Up and Boogie'' (sometimes also known simply as ''Silver Convention'') is the second studio album by the German disco group Silver Convention, and perhaps best known for including the song " Get Up and Boogie", which hit #1 on June 15, 197 ...
. Jackie Carter was the only one of the
session musicians to perform live with the group. Later in 1975, she stopped performing with the Silver Convention and was replaced by
Penny McLean
Gertrude Wirschinger, better known as Penny McLean (born 4 November 1948), is an Austrian vocalist who initially gained acclaim with the disco music act Silver Convention, but also had exposure as a single recording artist. As a solo singer, she i ...
.
Afterwards, she launched a successful solo career. Frank Diez, which would go on to be her first husband, produced her solo albums "Treat Me Like a Woman" (1976) and "Ruby Shoes" (1979).
In 1990, she met
Toby Gad
Tobias "Toby" Gad (born 28 March 1968) is a Los Angeles-based German music producer/songwriter, best known for co-writing John Legend's biggest hit, " All of Me," the fifth-highest certified single in RIAA history, and for co-writing and produc ...
, with whom she entered into a musical and private relationship. Since then, she has been working under her real name and the pseudonym Né-Mo-Rin. Together with Toby Gad, she began to write and produce songs and even moved to New York with him. Around the year 2000, Carter moved back to
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...
, where she worked with
Frankie Chinasky. She has been living in London again since 2012.
Discography
Albums
* 1976: ''Treat Me Like a Woman'' (as ''Jackie Carter''; Atlantic)
* 1979: ''Ruby Shoes'' (as ''Jackie Carter'';Global Records & Tapes)
* 1992: ''Creole Dance'' (as ''Nemorin''; MCI)
* 1995: ''Mission of Love'' (ls ''Nemorin'';
Electrola
Electrola is a German record label and subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Based in Munich, its roster has included Chumbawamba, Matthias Reim, Helene Fischer, Brings, Höhner and Santiano.
History
On 8 May 1925 the British Gramophone Compan ...
)
Singles
* 1976: ''Treat Me Like a Woman'' (as ''Jackie Carter''; Big Tree / Atlantic / Hispavox)
* 1976: ''Just Like Lightning'' (as ''Jackie Carter''; Atlantic)
* 1977: ''Unsere Welt will immer nur Gewinner sehen'' (as ''Jackie Carter'';
Telefunken
Telefunken was a German radio and television apparatus company, founded in Berlin in 1903, as a joint venture of Siemens & Halske and the ''Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft'' (AEG) ('General electricity company').
The name "Telefunken" ap ...
)
* 1978: ''You Keep Me Hangin’ On'' (as ''Jackie Carter'';
RCA Victor)
* 1978: ''Paint It Black'' (as ''Jackie Carter''; Big Mouth)
* 1979: ''Stay for the Night'' (as ''Jackie Carter''; auch Maxi-Single; Global Records & Tapes)
* 1985: ''Heat of the Night'' (as ''Jackie Carter''; F1 Team)
* 1988: ''A Ci Lelao'' (as ''Nemorin''; auch Maxi-Single;
Metronome
A metronome, from ancient Greek μέτρον (''métron'', "measure") and νομός (nomós, "custom", "melody") is a device that produces an audible click or other sound at a regular interval that can be set by the user, typically in beats pe ...
/ MCI (1993))
* 1993: ''It Feels Good to Be Loved'' (as ''Nemorin''; auch Maxi-Single; MCI /
BMG)
* 1994: ''Mission of Love'' (as ''Nemorin''; auch Maxi-Single;
EMI
EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records Ltd. or simply EMI) was a British Transnational corporation, transnational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded in March 1 ...
)
* 1995: ''Boat on the River'' (as ''Nemorin''; EMI)
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nemorin, Jacqueline
Living people
Mauritian singers
Musicians from London
Silver Convention members
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century British women singers