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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. 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, a Catholic of Italian and Croatian descent, is a firefighter, who was injured on duty during the September 11 attacks, and her mother, Jill, who is Jewish, 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.