Bravo Niagara! Presents Samara Joy

Presented as part of the Bravo Niagara! TD Jazz Series

Few figures in jazz history have experienced the kind of success that vocalist Samara Joy has, especially at such a young age. Still only 25, she leads a career that can safely be called sensational.

To date she’s received five Grammy Awards, including one for Best New Artist that has given the committed jazz singer the profile of a pop celebrity and made her a steady presence on network TV. With millions of likes on TikTok, Joy has helped new, young generations of music fans discover timeless American music. Her performance credits read like a list of the most legendary venues and events in all of jazz and R&B, among them the Newport, Monterey and Montreal Jazz Festivals, the Apollo, the Village Vanguard and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Throughout Joy’s rise, her press has been glowing, to say the least. Of Linger Awhile, her breakout Verve Records debut, DownBeat commented, “With this beautiful recording, a silky-voiced star is born.” The New York Times called her a “silky-voiced rising star,” while NPR named her a “classic jazz singer from a new generation.” One sold-out concert at a time, she’s earned a reputation as a masterful interpreter of jazz standards and a rightful heiress of the sound, technique and charisma that defined her jazz heroines — including Sarah Vaughan, Betty Carter, Abbey Lincoln and Carmen McRae. Remarkably, she didn’t truly immerse herself in the jazz tradition until college.

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