12/20/2023
has the voice of an angel, the kind that makes you tear up from the very first note. It's no wonder why she's a 2x Grammy award winner for best new artist and best jazz vocal album in 2023.
Not only did she bless the audience at last night with her moving Christmas jazz performance, she blessed us further by sharing the enormous talent and love of her McLendon family by bringing on stage her father, cousins, and uncle to sing and play music with her, backed up further by the compelling choral performance of the young men and women in Atlanta's own New Manchester High School Choir.
is a national treasure - a generational bridge for the timeless and uniquely American musical genre of jazz. A true artist. A perfectionist. Complete with a healthy dose of grace, humor, and vulnerability, revealed through her storytelling.