The 25-year-old Jazz artist, who's won every Grammy she's been nominated for, is up for two more awards at the 68th annual ...

The jazz singer’s grandfather, Elder Goldwire McLendon, participated on BET’s Sunday Best and finished in third place in the ...

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 ...

Samara Cyn is doing everything right nowadays, but truthfully, you could say she always has. Born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and bouncing around several cities before settling in Pheonix, Arizona in ...

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 ...

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. Xfinity ...

For Samara Joy, music runs in her blood. Her paternal grandparents founded The Savettes, a gospel group originating in Philadelphia. Her father was a famous bassist who toured with famed gospel artist ...

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 ...

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 ...