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Somi at Scullers Jazz Club

Courtesy of Marla Kleman | Posted on February 24, 2017

Where

Scullers Jazz Club
400 Soldiers Field Road
Boston, MA
Map
617-562-4111

When

Sat, March 18, 2017
8:00 pm

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Musicians

Somi
vocals

About

Born in Illinois to immigrants from Rwanda and Uganga, African and Jazz legacies are crucial to Somi's sound. Referred to as a modern-day Miriam Makeba, JazzTimes magazine describes her performance as "the earthy gutsiness of Nina Simone blended with the fluid vocal beauty of Dianne Reeves," while Billboard remarks that she's "all elegance and awe... utterly captivating."

Somi is a TED Senior Fellow, inaugural Association of Performing Arts Presenters Fellow, founder of the non-profit New Africa Live, and a two-time recipient of the Doris Duke Foundation's French-American Jazz Exchange Composers’ Grant. She was a 2015 Artist-inResidence at UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance and The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation....

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