Samara Joy: I was like "this is the only jazz song ... Her grandfather sang with the acclaimed Savettes, a gospel group out of Philadelphia. Her father toured with gospel superstar Andrae Crouch.

Jazz vocalist Samara Joy, now 25 ... a gospel group out of Philadelphia. Joy's father, Tony McLendon, toured with gospel superstar Andrae Crouch. Gospel was the lifeblood of the McLendon household.

Chris Stapleton, Noah Kahan, Samara Joy — lots of great people!” Songs double as life lessons on “Sesame Street,” from an alt-R&B-pop track about gratitude with SZA to an acoustic number ...

Samara Joy: I was like "this is the only jazz song ... Her grandfather sang with the acclaimed Savettes, a gospel group out of Philadelphia. Her father toured with gospel superstar Andrae Crouch.

Samara Joy's meteoric rise since graduating from High School has ... West Virginia. Ben Paterson (Philadelphia, PA: First Place); Rina Yamazaki (Saitama, Japan: Second Place & The Nu Jazz Agency’s ...

With a voice as smooth as velvet, SAMARA JOY’s star seems to rise with each performance ... Elder Goldwire and Ruth McLendon, who led the well-known Philadelphia-based gospel group, The Savettes. Her ...

Music lovers can see performances by Wynton Marsalis, Esperanza Spalding and Samara Joy as well as several ... site to see events across the state. Philadelphia is famously the home of the Liberty ...

Done made it up in your mind that I'm going to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago ... A recent version that I really like a lot is by Samara Joy. And she won, like, two Grammys this year for Best Jazz ...

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