GRAMMY-Award winning and chart-topping singer Samara Joy is returning to tour the UK in April 2024 including a special show at London’s Roundhouse on 27 April as part of In the Round Festival. Performing on the closing night of the EFG London Jazz Festival next week (Sunday 19 November) for a Sold Out show at the Barbican, the rising star will take her impressive live show on her biggest UK tour yet.
Samara Joy makes her case to join the likes of Sarah, Ella, and Billie as the next mononymous jazz singing sensation recorded by the venerable Verve Records. Her voice, rich and velvety yet precociously refined, has already earned her fans across the globe — cementing her status as perhaps the first Gen Z jazz singing star. The New York Times praised the “silky-voiced rising star” for “helping jazz take a youthful turn” while NPR All Things Considered named her a “classic jazz singer from a new generation.” In February 2023, Samara Joy took home two GRAMMYs – Best Jazz Vocal Album and the auspicious Best New Artist award.
Samara is still relatively new to jazz. Growing up in the Bronx, it was music of the past — the music of her parent’s childhoods, as she put it — that she listened to most. She treasures her musical lineage, which stretches back to her grandparents Elder Goldwire and Ruth McLendon, both of whom performed with Philadelphia gospel group the Savettes and runs through her father, who is a singer, songwriter, and producer who toured with gospel artist Andraé Crouch.
Samara Joy April 2024 UK Tour Dates are as follows:
22 – Band on the Wall, Manchester
23 – Usher Hall, Edinburgh
25 – Town Hall, Birmingham
27 – Roundhouse, London
28 – Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden
For further info on the EFG London Jazz Festival visit the official website
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