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 ...

Samara Joy is nominated for two more Grammy awards at this year's 68th annual ceremony She's won all five Grammys she's previously been nominated for The 25-year-old jazz artist burst onto the scene ...

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 ...

Music runs in Samara Joy’s blood. Her grandparents founded a gospel group in Philadelphia called The Savettes, and her father, Antonio, is a bassist and singer. But while it always made sense for her ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Twisted ...

Joy says what she loves most about performing in Detroit is the energy and supportive spirit she gets from the people. Credit: AB + DM Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Samara Joy is bringing her acclaimed ...

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 ...