PHILADELPHIA " Samara Joy will celebrate her birthday in Philadelphia. The jazz singer's career has been ascendant since 2019, when she won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition while a student at Fordham University. Four years later, she stunned the music world when she was named best new artist at the 2023 Grammys. That experience, Joy says, speaking from her Harlem ...
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:30AM on November 11, 2025