Jazzmeia Horn

She has been called the future of jazz, she has received prestigious awards and she has stunned critics and audiences back home in the US. Get ready to meet one of jazz’s biggest stars.

In 2015, Jazzmeia Horn won the Thelonious Monk Competition – and since then she’s been in high demand, to say the least. Downbeat’s John Murph notes that she “owns the stage as soon as she steps on it. She exudes a bold and majestic presence that demands respect, and it’s enhanced by her elegant vocals”.

In 2017, singer Jazzmeia Horn’s debut album A Social Call was nominated for a Grammy. On the album, Jazzmeia Horn scats and sings with such confidence that critics began talking about her as the future of jazz, and the album was quickly nominated for best vocal album of the year. On A Social Call, she moves seamlessly through standards, hard bop, r&b and more spiritual jazz songs. The record company Prestige compared her to Sarah Vaughan in the press release and that’s the level this young star is at.

Not only is she a dazzling singer. In songs like People Make The World Go Round, she addresses some of the most important issues of our time: racism, environmental degradation and corrupt politicians. In interviews, she emphasizes that she is not a protest singer, but that she obviously wants her music to contribute to change.

Her latest album, Love and Liberation, was released in 2019 – bursting with musicality, strength and courageous messages about our times. Her original compositions and covers breathe and follow the jazz tradition mixed with R&B, hip hop and a love of melodic lines reminiscent of greats such as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone.

We look forward to welcoming Jazzmeia Horn back to Fasching!

Tickets: Nortic

Place: Fasching, Kungsgatan, Stockholm, Sweden
Price: 325 SEK
Date: 07.05.2024
Time: 20:00

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