Samara Joy

"BP with the GM" won the Marian McPartland-Willis Conover Award for Career Achievement in Broadcasting, among other honors in the 2023 JJA Jazz Awards.

Among the two dozen or so artists honored with a 2023 JJA Jazz Award, a few stand out for dominant wins in multiple categories.

Samara Joy, who won Best New Artist as well as Best Jazz Vocal Album at the 65th Grammy Awards, is one thing we can all agree on.

Don't be shocked by the 23-year-old jazz singer's breakneck rise from precocious college student to best new artist Grammy nominee. In those few years, she's been building three careers at once.

As she wraps up a world-beating year, Samara Joy is embarking on a holiday tour with the McLendon Family, which reaches Ardmore Music Hall on Dec. 21. She spoke with WRTI about her Philly roots, her family legacy, and what it means to be home for Christmas.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with 22-year-old jazz singer Samara Joy, who recently took to the stage of legendary club Blues Alley in Washington, D.C. Her album, Linger Awhile, is out now.

Jazz Night In America puts the spotlight on Samara Joy, a young vocalist and songwriter who is taking cues from the past to create music that is both classic and contemporary.

In her self-titled debut album, Samara Joy approaches tunes immortalized by Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Carmen McRae with such maturity and erudition, you wouldn't guess that she never really studied, or performed any of their repertoire, until she enrolled in SUNY Purchase’s jazz program just four years ago.