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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 2023 Grammy Awards took place more than a month ago, but Samara Joy’s feet are still not back on the ground. “No, not yet!” said the 23-year-old vocal sensation, who won both the Best New Artist ...

Samara is poised and elegant onstage at Newport, Umbria Jazz and the Apollo Theater in polished performances captured on TikTok, where you can scroll the timeline of her rise to fame along with the ...

Samara Joy performs after President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden lit the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse, near the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. Mark Schiefelbein / ...