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Jackie Carter whose real name is Jacqueline Nemorin was born on Mauritius in the late 1950s, her father a pianist, and her mother a dancer. The family emigrated to London, England, Jackie became a British citizen. In the early 70s, she moved to Germany which was a cultural melting pot and the creative center of Europe at the time, adapting the artist name Jackie Carter. In 1974, she was one of several session singers hired for an album project by producers Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay under the name Silver Convention. While the other singers had been contractually engaged in other projects, Jackie was eventually assembled with Ramona Wulf and Linda G. Thompson to promote the Silver Convention single "Save Me" and afterward work on the first album for Silver Convention "Save Me." She did a few TV performances before she quit for a solo career. She was replaced by Penny McLean and soon after, the album broke big internationally.

It was her boy friend Frank Diez of German jazz-rock group Emergency who took charge of her solo career. Diez wrote and produced two disco albums with her, "Treat Me Like a Woman" (1976) and "Ruby Shoes" (1979). In between, they recorded a few non-album singles. Jackie also took part in a musical about Wilhelm Tell for which there also was a soundtrack album. She began composing and co-wrote the music for the movie Ashram in Poona (1979) together with Klaus Schultze and George Geuter.

After some quiet years in the early 80s, she tried a comeback with the single "Heat of the Night" (1985) when she was asked to join schlager girl group The Hornettes which featured several of the original Silver Convention vocalists from ten years earlier. She recorded two albums with the group, produced by Jürgen Marcus, and also formed the group China Blue with Frank Diez for one single release in 1987 before she and Diez divorced.

In 1990, she met Toby Gad, an aspiring 22-year-old young German musician and songwriter who together with his brother Jens was working with producer Frank Farian on the infamous Milli Vanilli album. The two of them began a relationship both privately and musically, and started working on an album project of ethnic flavoured pop with Farian as an executive producer. Farian eventually wasn't keen on her releasing it as Jackie Carter due to the schlager image of The Hornettes, and Toby agreed. So Jackie Carter adapted her original Mauritian surname Nemorin for the rest of her career