Lizz Wright
Jazz
The next Lizz Wright concert is scheduled for Friday, July 18, 2025 at Jazz & Rib Fest in Columbus, OH, United States. See all 11 upcoming concerts
About Lizz Wright
Hometown
Hahira, GA, United States
Genre
Jazz
Lizz Wright synthesizes jazz, gospel, folk, blues, and soul with a full contralto voice that soothes whether the subject is romance, faith, loss, or everyday reflection. The singer/songwriter came up in the church in rural Georgia and was deeply involved with choirs before she made her commercial debut as a featured vocalist on Joe Sample's The Pecan Tree. Salt (2003), a remarkably accomplished first album on Verve, put her in the upper reaches of Billboard's contemporary jazz chart. Following a three-album run with Verve Forecast that concluded with the gospel-oriented Fellowship (2010), a number two entry on the main jazz chart, Wright recorded for Concord, where she issued Freedom & Surrender (2015) and Grace (2017). She then went independent and started her own Blues & Greens label the next decade with Holding Space (2022), her first live recording, trailed by Shadow (2024), one of her bluesier studio efforts.
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