Dee Jackson Field is an American singer-songwriter, music producer and arts administrator. Born in Newark, New Jersey, she attended Newark public schools and later studied at Essex College of Business, Rutgers University, Newark, and Jazzmobile in Harlem, New York.  She began her professional career with the girl group, Thunder, Storm & Lightning, signing with Island Records. The 2014 single "Love Is" was her first project as a solo artist. The digital EP, #Deejacksonfieldproject, was completed in 2017 with the help of her husband, Phil Field, (Aurra, Mtume).   

The Fields recently released two singles, "Here We Go"-- with Lenny Covington (Parkway Soul) on drums and Buddy Hankerson (Slave, Young & Company, Steve Arrington's Hall of Fame) on bass, and the infectious electronic dance tune, "No More Tears (The Remix)" featuring percussionist Steve Thornton, co-written by Ira Clark.

An educational consultant, music teacher, vocal coach and mentor, Dee has designed, led, sponsored and endorsed arts education programs for students of all ages for more than three decades . 

She created early childhood learning models for day care centers in Newark and East Orange and  developed a pre-school music curriculum for the South Orange-Maplewood (NJ) After-School Program. She designed and implemented a Vocal Music Artist-in-Residency for Newark K-12 Public Schools and  instituted a high school choral program at the Bronx, (NY) Academy of Letters.￿She was Administrator and Lead Vocal Performance Artist with the Studioworks Youth Arts Apprenticeship programs at Montclair High School and Seton Hall University. 

Dee serves on the NJPAC Advisory Council and helped spearhead "Let's Break The Cycle,"  an￿ongoing event created for NJPAC'S presentation of Oprah Winfrey's "The Color Purple:￿The Musical," to promote￿the awareness and prevention of sexual abuse and￿domestic violence. Dee is also a member of  the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP),  the Arts Council of East Orange, My Sister's Lighthouse,  and other organizations.  

Dee is a founding board member of the Inez S. Bull Foundation, a non-profit organization that awards scholarships to music students. From 1995-2020, Dee organized the Ole Bull Music Festival Summer Awards Concert at Lincoln Center. The Pennsylvania Festival and New York Concert provided opportunities for young people to perform and receive recognition for their work and to network with other young musicians.

Dee is  founder and director of IMANIA Women's Chorus, a multicultural, multi-generational organization that performs in support of many social causes including sexual abuse/domestic violence awareness and prevention and housing and food insecurity, as well as youth advocacy programs. 

A dedicated teaching artist, Dee co-founded and runs South Valley Arts, a not-for-profit organization established to provide cultural, recreational and arts education programs for underserved children and adults. Since 1992, South Valley Arts has launched its Youth Arts Conservatory program and Jazz On The Portico mentoring project at churches and community centers in Bloomfield, East Orange, Orange, Montclair, Newark and Plainfield, NJ.