All things considered, growing up in a musical family should have meant that Samara Joy would grow up to pursue music too. And so she did. The Bronx native has musical roots to Philadelphia through ...

The 25-year-old Jazz artist, who's won every Grammy she's been nominated for, is up for two more awards at the 68th annual ...

The jazz singer’s grandfather, Elder Goldwire McLendon, participated on BET’s Sunday Best and finished in third place in the ...

This is an audio transcript of the Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast episode: ‘Samara Joy, 24-year-old jazz sensation’ Lilah Raptopoulos This is Life and Art from FT Weekend. I’m Lilah Raptopoulos.

When Samara Joy auditioned for the jazz studies course at the State University of New York, in 2017, she had just one problem: she knew practically nothing about the music. Although she had won the ...

Samara is poised and elegant onstage at Newport, Umbria Jazz and the Apollo Theater in polished performances captured on TikTok, where you can scroll the timeline of her rise to fame along with the ...

Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Samara Joy has announced a new studio album Portrait, set for release on October 11th via Verve Records. Emerging from the crucible of an unrelenting global touring ...

Samara Joy, 25, is a jazz singer and the winner of five Grammy Awards. Her most recent album, “Portrait,” was released last year, and she currently is on a global tour through the fall. She spoke with ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Samara Joy’s voice has the ability to transform listeners to the early jazz clubs, filling them with warm nostalgia for legends like Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. Bruno Mars ...