Jacqueline Ntuyabaliwe Mengi is a Tanzanian musician, businesswoman and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Tanzania 2000. She is also an award-winning furniture designer and chairman of Amorette Ltd a furniture design and manufacturing company. Jacqueline is also the founder and chairman of Dr Ntuyabaliwe Foundation a charity organization which provides libraries and books to local primary schools.

Career

Music career

She began her career as a musician in 1997 with a Tanzanian band the ''Tanzanites''. She performed as one of the lead vocalists for three years. In 2004 she released her first solo album with a hit single ''Nalia kwa Furaha''. Three years later she released another album called ''Crazy over You'' which was also the name of the first hit single for that album.

Miss Tanzania 2000

In 2000, she won the Miss Tanzania and represented the country in

Miss World Miss World is the oldest existing international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951. Since his death in 2000, Morley's widow, Julia Morley, has co-chaired the pageant. Along with Miss Universe, Miss Int ...

Interior Design, Amorrete Ltd, Molocaho Furniture

After almost ten years in the music industry she switched careers to interior design. In 2013 she registered her own interior design company, Amorrete Ltd. In 2016 Jacqueline launched ''MOLOCAHO'' by Amorette, an award-winning furniture brand designed and manufactured by her company Amorette.

Personal life

Jacqueline was married to

Reginald Mengi Reginald Abraham Mengi (1943 – May 2, 2019) was a Tanzanian billionaire, businessperson, philanthropist, and author of the book ''I Can, I Must, I Will''. Reginald Abraham Mengi was born into a poor family in Northern Tanzania and raised in a ...

, a business man and media tycoon. They have twin sons together.

Awards and nominations

2018 Stevie International Awards-Entrepreneur of the Year- Manufacturing

References

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