To most people, the junction of New York and Lagos, Nigeria may not seem like a natural place for an album to take shape. Somi, thankfully, thought otherwise. This worldly and well-traveled vocalist ...

You could think of Somi as the quintessential artist citizen of the world. Born in Illinois to parents of Uganda and Rwanda, she traveled world as a child, daughter of a diplomat and educator who had ...

HelloBeautiful.com’s “Base Level” column features the hottest new artists we’re buzzing about. Before they make it to the summit of superstardom, we spot them at base level–the beginning of their ...

Somi is a jazz singer and songwriter currently based in New York City. Banning Eyre reviews her latest album, The Lagos Music Salon, a collection of songs composed while she lived in Lagos, Nigeria.

For jazz-infused soul singer Somi, the call of Lagos, Nigeria, wasn’t ancestral or political. As the daughter of East African immigrant parents from Rwanda and Uganda, she has spent a good deal of ...

Sophisticated and seductive, Somi's new album The Lagos Music Salon developed out of the American singer and songwriter's repeated visits to Lagos, Nigeria, where, as Teju Cole's liner notes put it, ...

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Her parents were from Uganda and Rwanda; she was born in Illinois and spent time in Nigeria. NPR's Arun Rath speaks with jazz artist and singer Somi about her latest project, The Lagos Music Salon.

"When Rivers Cry," where she is joined by Common, is an eloquent ecological lament for a time when "the trees remember days of plenty," in a world with "Feet crushing plastic/Moving windows tossing ...

Cross-genre jazz vocalist Somi moved from New York to live in Lagos, Nigeria, and then came back with the stories and sensibilities that inform her vividly conceived, kaleidoscopic fourth record. The ...

Somi, “The Lagos Music Salon”(Okeh). Labeling this music is no easy task. Despite its frequently exotic rhythms, it’s more like jazz than anything else. Despite singer and songwriter Somi’s Ugandan ...