From scat singing to jazz history tidbits, Dearly Blossom's social media content has earned the doe-eyed diva thousands of ...
Laufey (pronounced lay-vay) grew up in Iceland as a multi-instrumentalist kid prodigy, schooled in classical as well as jazz. Now, living in L.A., she’s one of our unlikeliest as well as most talented ...
"I don't like being bored while I'm singing," laughs René Marie. The Virginia-based vocalist and MAXJAZZ recording artist is explaining why she sings jazz. "You don't know what somebody's going to say ...
Billie Holiday was a preeminent jazz vocalist, widely appreciated during her heyday in the 1930s through the 1950s. But many fans now insist that she's the greatest of all time. The Rock and Roll Hall ...
Music is solace. The day my mother died, I had a gig I couldn’t get out of. I’d been crying all day, but for those two sets it was as if it hadn’t happened. I was surprised and not surprised by that.
Is Laufey a jazz artist, or a bona fide pop star? The qualified answer, with asterisks to spare, is “both.” And that’s part of the fun in discussing everyone’s favorite Icelandic-Asian-American singer ...