Jacqueline Ntuyabaliwe Mengi is a Tanzanian musician, businesswoman and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Tanzania 2000.
She is also a 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.
Personal life
Jacqueline was married to Reginald Mengi, a business man and media tycoon.
Awards and nominations
YearEventPrizeRecipient Result2007 Tanzania Music Awards Best Female Artist & Best Collaboration (Crazy Over You, with Squeezer) 2007 Pearl of Africa Music Awards Best Tanzanian Female Artist HerselfUgpulse.com: PAM Awards 20072008 Tanzania Music Awards Best Female ArtistHerselfFreemedia.co.tz: Kili Music Awards 2007 yafana, wengi wakubali matokeo 2008 Pearl of Africa Music AwardsBest Tanzanian Female Artist HerselfPAM Awards2013Swahili Fashion Week AwardsStylish Female Personality Herself2016Swahili Fashion Week AwardsStyle Icon of the Year Herself2017A Design International Awards (Roma)Bronze Award For Furniture Category Ngorongoro settee Bronze Award For Light Category Sayari Lamp2018 Stevie International Awards-Entrepreneur of the Year- Manufacturing
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