Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through our links on this page. Every once in a while, the Montreal International Jazz Festival falls in love. It happened last year, ...

LONDON-BORN, Paris-based chanteuse Ala.ni is pleased with her performance on the UNESCO- sponsored International Jazz Day Showcase held at 22 Jerk on Barbican Road in St Andrew on Saturday, April 30. ...

Enjoy a playlist dedicated to recent and upcoming releases, where curiosity still rules, and the music often comes from just around the corner... or halfway across the world, Barcelona to New York; ...

It’s hard to fall for a new artist whose break came courtesy of that bastion of cutting-edge music programming, Later With Jools Holland. But Ala.Ni is a beguiling singer capable of torching lazy ...

Vintage-hued jazz from Mary J Blige’s former backing singer, sparse melancholic folktronica from Sydney and some finger-snapping funk to rival Mark Ronson Formerly a backing vocalist for Damon Albarn, ...

U.K.-born and Paris-based singer ALA.NI presents a majestic ode to the first stages of love in her new song "Cherry Blossom." ALA.NI's classic and jazzy voice saunters across the alluring instrumental ...

In this internet age that we live in, it’s hard to decipher what’s real and what’s fake. ALA.NI’s triumphant second album ACCA is here to confuse matters even further. The human voice is often ...

She’s being hailed as the new voice of jazz. Born in London to parents from the island of Grenada, Ala.ni splits her life between Paris and London. A former backing singer for artists as diverse as ...

With a cabaret star for a great-uncle and Julie Andrews as her role model, the British singer has been steeped in classic pop all her life. "I... Don't Call It Nostalgia: ALA.NI's Done This For Years ...

Beginning Friday, May 19, at 12 p.m. ET, watch a live stream of the jazz-influenced British singer ALA.NI at noon, followed by former Late Show bandleader Paul Shaffer and his group, The World's Most ...

An alumni of the Sylvia Young Talent School, and a former session singer for the likes of Mary J Blige and Damon Albarn, West London’s ALA.NI nonetheless seems to have descended, fully formed, from ...