Name: Samara Joy
Start: 2024-10-13T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Nancy and David Bilheimer Capitol Theatre

GRAMMY® Award-Winning jazz newcomer, Samara Joy, comes to Clearwater for her Ruth Eckerd Hall debut! Her voice, rich and velvety yet precociously refined, has already earned her appearances on the TODAY Show, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, CBS Mornings, MSNBC, Kelly Clarkson, etc., in addition to millions of likes on TikTok — cementing her status as perhaps the first Gen Z jazz singing star. In February 2023, Samara Joy took home two GRAMMYs® - Best Jazz Vocal Album and the auspicious Best New Artist award. In 2024 she received another for Best Improvised Jazz Solo. On the GRAMMY® Award-Winning debut, Linger Awhile, Samara introduces the audience to a slew of classic standards several times older than she is through her timeless, irresistible sound. The New York Times praised the “silky-voiced rising star” for “helping jazz take a youthful turn” while NPR All Things Considered named her a “classic jazz singer from a new generation.”