Catching Up with Samara Joy, and Four Finalists in the 2021 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition
/ I first met Samara Joy in November 2019, two days before she won the prestigious Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition at NJPAC. She walked into the WBGO studio for her interview as a finalist with a very mild, unassuming presence that certainly wouldn’t set off any alarm bells. We started talking and she mentioned how she had only come to discover Sarah Vaughan’s "Lover Man" the previous year, as a student at SUNY Purchase. She was instantly enthralled, and dove in headfirs...
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