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 ...

Samara Weaving (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”) and Brigette Lundy-Paine (“Atypical”) have joined the cast of “Bill & Ted Face the Music,” and are set to play the daughters of the ...

All things considered, growing up in a musical family should have meant that Samara Joy would grow up to pursue music too. And so she did. The Bronx native has musical roots to Philadelphia through ...

When Samara Joy auditioned for the jazz studies course at the State University of New York, in 2017, she had just one problem: she knew practically nothing about the music. Although she had won the ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an audio transcript of the Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast episode: ‘Samara Joy, 24-year-old jazz sensation’ Lilah Raptopoulos This is Life and Art from FT Weekend. I’m Lilah Raptopoulos.

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 ...

Best New Artist is subject to mockery because the nominees are usually established artists by the time they are nominated for Best New Artist. Olivia Rodrigo won the award in 2022 after her ...

Jazz singer Samara Joy discusses what it was like to win her first Grammy. Jazz has been called the music of resistance. The genre has roots in protest music and is enjoying a resurgence through the ...

Samara Joy, 25, is a jazz singer and the winner of five Grammy Awards. Her most recent album, “Portrait,” was released last year, and she currently is on a global tour through the fall. She spoke with ...