The world was introduced to the smooth sounds of Samara Joy on Sunday night at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards when she took home two Grammys, including the highly coveted Best New Artist.
"Then we can get to how to make the song my own," she said.
In high school, Joy began to plant her own seed in the genre, playing in a jazz band for a couple of months before deciding just how far she wanted to go with her talent. Samara Joy accepts the Best New Artist award onstage during the 65th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 05, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. She studied jazz at Purchase College, State University of New York. Shortly after graduating in 2021, Joy performed her first set at the popular jazz club, Mezzrow, in New York's West Village neighborhood. It was here that she was introduced to an underground world of music that she said she never imagined she would be a part of.
"I was in a quiet car .... silently screaming, silently, until I got off the train," she recalled."And that's the first time that I really felt like my heart is just kind of like in my stomach."