Photo Credit: Sylven Lamar

Maria Eva Jacobs...
is an American author, national Christian / Jazz recording and voice over artist, born of Syrian Lebanese and Armenian descent. She is a licensed music educator and the professor of vocal jazz at Kent State University. Her debut book, entitled "Tell Them About Me" is a captivating, Christian testimony that reveals in detail her triumph over Bipolar Disorder, her life with Alopecia and what appeared for years to be insurmountable odds, odds she overcame through the Grace and Mercy of Jesus Christ. He is the "Me,"
and hers is a resurrection story of hope and faith.

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Whether making high notes sound effortless, displaying quiet passion, or cutting loose like the best Broadway singer, Maria Jacobs is quite impressive.

--Scott Yanow, Jazz Historian, Author and critic

"Maria Jacobs, a Jazz-driven singer, brings musicality, persuasive story-telling skills and a warm, supple voice to her intimate readings of the Great American Songbook and to the Metropolitan Room, NY."

--- Don Heckman, Columnist (iRom) International Review of Music

Maria's ninth album, "Back at the Bop Stop was accepted for Grammy review in the highly coveted Best Jazz Vocal Album Category for the 66th Annual Grammy Awards ® in 2024.

"Maria Jacobs is a powerful singer with a strong voice and a very expressive style.

While she has had a wide-ranging career that includes singing a wide-variety of genres, Back at the Bop Stop (the follow up to her previous Bootleggin' at the Bop Stop), has her back at her roots, singing swingin' Jazz."

--- Scott Yanow, Jazz Historian, Author and Critic

"Maria Jacobs has grown a great deal since her Los Angeles period, and Back at the Bop Stop (live), is arguably her most rewarding recording so far."

----- Scott Yanow, Jazz Historian, Author and Critic

The Maria Jacobs Quartet was nominated in the Best Jazz Band Category for the third annual Cleveland Music Awards in 2024

Hear some Christian music that has charted nationally on the Smooth Jazz Holiday Charts throughout the years.

Everyday Is Christmas

This is the 2024 national release on Smooth Jazz Stations around the country.

Someone To Love At Christmas

This is Maria's 2023 original Christmas single which charted on the Smooth Jazz Holiday Charts. Produced by Grammy winner Pete Tokar and Maria Jacobs

December Snow

This is Maria's 2022 original Christmas single,

which charted on the Smooth Jazz Holiday Charts

Produced with Grammy winner Pete Tokar

Background vocals arranged by Maria

"The Shepherd, The Sheep and the Lamb"

This is Maria's original Christian Christmas composition, written in 2020

Piano and arrangement, Maria Jacobs

Recorded with John Guggenheim at C-Town Sound

"Emmanuel"

Written and arranged by Maria and produced with Grammy winner Pete Tokar, this song charted nationally on the 2020 Smooth Jazz Holiday Charts

"Children Go Where I Send Thee"

Arranged by Maria and Phillip K. Jones, who played all instruments. All background vocals arranged by Maria

and recorded and mixed for Pete Tokar Productions. This song Charted in 2019 on the Smooth Jazz Holiday Charts.

"My God is Here"

Written by Maria for her fifth album,

Here Comes Winter, 2014

This is Maria's first original Christian song.