She is like a mix of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. You can hear a little Nancy Wilson too.

She reminds me of Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald but with her own touch. EXCELLENCE ‼️

Samara is absolutely one of the greatest vocalist in the last century, bar none. Her performance of this song in the Today Show is just unbelievable. Look forward to seeing her in December.

Love her

I love her voice he reminds me of herself,nothing but herself this is unique voice 💕 it

I was so happy when she won the Grammy for best new artist because it’s so nice to have such a change of what society deems popular. Girl can saaaaaaaaang. And at 23 to have the technique and tone of billy holiday, Etta, and Bessie Smith, Nina Simone, and Dinah Washington is just mind blowing.

Now a three time Grammy winner! Amazing

Love your reaction to Samara Joy. It's the way I feel every time I listen to her which is a lot recently. Only found out about her about 4 months ago when I came across her concert with Emmet Cohen in Verona last year. Watch her recent performance at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam - not just a singer of brilliance but is a natural with the audience too. Wow!!

Stunning in every way!

Love the intro!!! She has a beautiful voice.

Sarah Vaughn

That was beautiful...🤩👊☝️🖼☝️🎇

That Sarah Vaughn, Carmen McRae, Ella Fitzgerald mix in her voice is just amazing. It makes me so happy! You have got to react to her new single "Tight". It is short, but wonderful!

She's 23

Also Jill Scott & Kim Burrell

She's 23 years old

It's a culmination of Ella's Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Nancy Wilson and a little Gloria Lynn!

She sounds like you better ask sum body, cause sum people don't knowwwww!

Her, Phyllis Hyman, and Sarah Vaughn

nick, it’s been a sec my dude. anyway, if you finna check out more jazz, she more contemporary, but this one I’m finna drop on you, you can call it contemporary/smooth jazz, R&B, whatever, but this is a friend who actually put me on to Samara. you gotta look up my friend, her music name is Castella. she has a new song out now called Intoxicated Love. I think you finna flip. she good, and I know this for a fact cause I actually been hearing her sang for years. we actually know each other in real life, so it would be a big one if you could feature her for me. I was actually shook and shocked to see that this girl I knew from church, and we played together at times, actually a singer on the rise and actually charting.

Chrisette Michele tone sounds very similiar

Lest we forget, the overtones channeling the incomparable Sarah Vaughn......

For me, she continues the legacy of Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington.

This is a correction. Samara Joy sang 'Guess Who I Saw Today?' Live on Jennifer Hudson's show, not Tamron Hall's Show.

I really believe it's a conspiracy the way black people are lured away from being like this and encouraged to be urban "street" ghetto trap rappers and etc. Sorry. I said it. That is what I think. I love black people because I know they are great and have been the greatest for so long. I even found novel enjoyment in the gangsta stuff in the early 90s but enough is enough. Black people are amazing and should reclaim their throne at the top by just reclaiming what they always did through the 30s through to the 70s (arguably much earlier as well, low-key).

Sarah Vaughan

Are you thinking of Sarah Vaughan

I think she sounds like ella fitzgerald combinded with sarah vaughan

Irritating tone to my ears

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