This feature is from Complex Magazine Issue No. 2 - Spring 2025 (The Innovation Issue), which is available now for pre-order on Complex Shop. Samara Cyn is a self-identified “genre-bender,” following ...

Joy has been dazzling the jazz scene, as such, for a handful of years, but another important aspect of her brilliant unfolding career is her almost evangelical expansion of her audience appeal into a ...

With family at the core of the holiday season, Grammy-winning jazz artist Samara Joy is bringing her musical family with her for a holiday concert next week. The 25-year-old Bronx native was immersed ...

2025 XXL Freshman Samara Cyn made her late-night television debut on Wednesday (July 23) with a dreamy performance of “Hardheaded” from her new EP Backroads on The Daily Show. Guest host Josh Jackson ...

In October 2024, Samara Cyn dropped her debut EP, The Drive Home. It apparently didn’t take her long to get going on another one, as she started sharing new songs a few months into the new year. That ...

Grammy-winning artist Samara Joy is making waves once again with the upcoming release of her third studio album, Portrait, scheduled for Oct. 11 via Verve Records. This follows her remarkable win for ...

At just 25, we’re comfortable anointing Samara Joy as the face of American jazz. The Bronx native champions an unsung wave of contemporary jazz musicians who pay equal attention to respecting the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Samara Joy’s voice has the ability to transform listeners to the early jazz clubs, filling them with warm nostalgia for legends like Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. Grammy winner ...

What an incredible journey for jazz singer Samara Joy over these past several years. I saw her in Indianapolis for the first time on November 3, 2022, on the small Shelton Auditorium stage at Butler ...

The jazz singer’s grandfather, Elder Goldwire McLendon, participated on BET’s Sunday Best and finished in third place in the competition. He died in December at the age of 95. Samara Joy views Grammy ...

The winner of three Grammy Awards at just 24 years old, jazz singer Samara Joy makes her Baton Rouge debut Sunday at the Raising Cane's River Center Theatre for Performing Arts. Joy’s fall tour ...

These new songs and albums are like a sneak peek into what we’re building at sea. Everything I’m doing right now, from the Big Band record to producing Ledisi’s new album, is really a part of the same ...