Sheldon Pearce
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- Sep 25, 2026
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- Aug 7, 2026
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The Sublime Somi Bridges African and Western Jazz (opens the original)
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In the past two decades, the singer Laura Kabasomi Kakoma, who performs music mononymously as Somi, has become a bridge between Western jazz and the jazz of Africa. An Illinois-born New Yorker of Rwandan and Ugandan descent who grew up in Zambia, she channels her diasporic upbringing into a synergized and singular sound—one anchored by a lovely, fluid voice that is paradoxically both calm and emphatic. She collaborated with the distinguished South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela, helped relaunch
Kacey Musgraves, Crossover Queen (opens the original)
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In the past few years, country music has reëxerted its sway on the pop-music charts and the broader Zeitgeist they reflect, but the genre’s greatest crossover success story remains the Texas singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves. Since her 2013 major-label début, “Same Trailer Different Park,” she has been a shaping voice of modern Americana, not just in the way her music marries rustic and cosmopolitan sensibilities but in its underlying progressive ideal. Clever, observant, and funny as hell, she
The Modern R. & B. of Olivia Dean and Baby Rose (opens the original)
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Many people consider virality to be synonymous with a kind of overnight celebrity for artists, but these days it is usually a mere spike along a more drawn-out stretch of unnoticed labor. Case in point: the British singer Olivia Dean. Since 2021, Dean has enjoyed several viral breakthroughs—a clip of a show, at London’s Jazz Café, that exploded across socials that year; another of a casual performance of the song “Dive,” which made the rounds on TikTok in 2023—all while climbing the usual rungs
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