Jeanette Macari started singing in the mid 1970s in a duet, Ars Nova, with her brother Eblen Macari. Ars Nova featured a fusion of Early Music, Latin American Folk Song and Eblen's own music.

Since 1985 Macari has been deeply involved in theater and developed an intense experience on stage performing both her own works, such as Hojas Secas. Flor del Vicio, Requiem para un Gangster, El Bolero de la Tosca, etc., and those of renowned directors such as Juan Ibáñez (Siempre es hoy) and Jesusa Rodríguez (Atracciones Fenix).

Her shows, usually one woman musicals, are derived from a fusion of the spirit of music hall, the European cabaret of the 30's, traditional opera, the Broadway musical and the Mexican musical revue.In 1985, she made her debut at the Palacio de Bellas Artes of Mexico.

Macari has worked under the musical direction of conductors such as Enrigue Patrón de Rueda, Fernando Lozano, Enrique Diemecke, Francisco Savín and Guillermo Salvador. She has given stellar performances as Suzuki in Puccini's Madame Butterfly, the grandmother in Manuel de Falla's La vida Breve, Count Orlovsky in Strauss's Die Fiedermaus, Anna in Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins and Carmen in Bizet's Carmen.In 1992 she was invited by the Caracas Municipal Symphonic Orchestra to premiere in Latinamerica Weill's Seven Deadly Sins.

In 1998 she was commissioned by Mexico's Festival International Cervantino to create and star a musical tribute to German dramatist Bertold Brecht (Contra la seducción), where her collaboration with Weill stands out.Jeanette Macari has participated in many international festivals including the Festival de Lille in France, the Festival Mozart in Austria, the Festival Grec and The Festival Tardor in Spain, the Festival Cervantino in Mexico and the Festival del Hatillo in Venezuela.

In conjunction with her operatic endeavors, Mrs. Macari has worked for televisionin 1995-97 she conducted Viva la Zarzuela (IPN channel 11), a program in which she highlighted the most representative aspects of this genre and, in 1999 appeared for the first time on the big screen, a singer in the Mexican awarded film Santitos.

La Sunamita, opera (National Council of the Arts, Mexico, 1991)

Se Remata Chifonier, songs from a nostalgic Mexico) (Lacuabe CDGLP049/CP, 1992)

Mexican Divas (Opcion Sonica, 1998)

Mexican Divas II (Opcion Sonica, 1999)

Aires, with Eblen Macari (Opcion Sonica OPCCD124, 2000)