Following last year’s success, jazz once again takes the spotlight at the Festival dei Due Mondi. A highly anticipated event for music lovers, the festival is both a prestigious stage for internationally renowned artists and a showcase for the rising stars of the jazz scene.
On July 11th, the stage of Palazzo Collicola will be graced by the remarkable China Moses, a soul/jazz singer with an extraordinary charisma. The daughter of the legendary Dee Dee Bridgewater, China has captivated audiences with her successful albums and a style that seamlessly blends jazz, blues, and R&B. As The Times aptly describes her: "With a glass of red wine within reach, dazzling in Parisian chic with high heels, she commands the stage the moment she steps on."
China Moses
Kwame Yeboah, keys
Jerome Cornelis, guitar
Lawrence Insula, bass
Lox, drums
in collaboration with Umbria Jazz
INFORMATION
Please note that dates and times may change.
For updates consult the website www.festivaldispoleto.com
China Moses is a high voltage soul/jazz diva with a career as a singer as well as presenter for MTV France, TSF Jazz Radio and more. The daughter of Dee Dee Bridgewater and director Gilbert Moses was born in Los Angeles and raised in Paris, France. Her albums brought her work with renowned names like Guru, DJ Mehdi, Karriem Riggins, Meshell Ndegeocello, Anthony Marshall and sound engineer Bob Power. After her the release of her first single “Time” at the age of 16, more successful albums followed and in 2009, she released the album “This One’s For Dinah” (Blue Note France), a tribute to her idol Dinah Washington, with the pianist Raphaël Lemonnier. The musicians carried on working together in 2012 with the album “Crazy Blues” (Decca/UMG), named by the UK “Times” as one of the Top 100 albums of 2013. These two projects took her on the road where Moses developed a keen sense of stage. On her last album ‘Nightintales’ (EDEL), China turned her attention to carving out her own terrain. The resulting twelve songs are destined to become new standards. Like an archer, Moses draws from the quiver of her musical forbears, sending arrows true and further than those who preceded her. She is the rare young, female artist – capable of swinging with the finest and drawing on her innate mastery of tempo. Her R&B heritage allows her to smile around a phrase, carry emotions across a lyric and infuse profundity in every note. For her upcoming album ‘It’s Complicated’, China is surrounded by a cross-genre cadre of musicians, poised to reinvent the Jazz Vocal archetype for a new age, jettisoning that which is unneeded on her trajectory – taking listeners beyond the known to a universe uniquely her own. ‘It’s Complicated’ is set to be released in Spring 2025. Impermanence
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