Kandace Springs

“Kandace has a voice that could melt snow.” – Prince

World-renowned singer, songwriter, and pianist Kandace Springs’ 2020 album The Women Who Raised Me is her loving tribute to the great female singers who inspired her to become one of the premier jazz/soul vocalists of our time.

While 2018’s Indigo found the Nashville singer-pianist using modern production to bend sound into new genre forms, this set adheres sonically to jazz while Springs travels back and forth across a near-century of music.

While the feel is as rich and complex as our host’s voice, the concept is simple. Springs covers the women who inspired her while she was growing up, putting her own spin on songs associated with a dozen of the greatest female vocalists of all-time: Ella Fitzgerald, Roberta Flack, Astrud Gilberto, Lauryn Hill, Billie Holiday, Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Carmen McRae, Bonnie Raitt, Sade, Nina Simone, and Dusty Springfield.

At the center as always is Kandace’s unique piano style and soul-drenched vocals, and never has the Nashville native sounded so at home in the studio. “This is an album I’ve been wanting to make forever,” says Springs. “It really expresses my love for all of these singers and gratitude for what they gave me. Each taught me something different and all of those lessons combined to make me who I am now.”

“I felt so comfortable singing these songs, they are like old friends, and with such great musicians around me I knew we would make magic. I’m so proud of what we did, it’s the best album I’ve ever made”.

Springs counts such song stylists as Prince, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Nina Simone as her heroes. She’s long had that lithe and smoky voice and an intensely expressive mastery over the piano.

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