Jax

Jaclyn Cole Miskanic (born May 5, 1996), known professionally as Jax, is an American singer-songwriter from the fourteenth season of American Idol, an American singing competition series. Her first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 chart was for her song "Victoria's Secret”. Early life Jax was raised in Atlantic Beach, New York, and moved with her family in 2005 to East Brunswick, New Jersey. She began singing at age 5. Her father, John, is a firefighter, who was injured on duty during the September 11 attacks, and her mother, Jill, is a New York City school teacher. After attending the East Brunswick Public Schools, Jax was homeschooled starting in eighth grade, in order to allow her sufficient time for voice lessons, performances and recording. In mid-2014, she studied at New York University in London, where she won the John Lennon Scholarship in songwriting via the BMI Foundation.