Jazmine Sullivan

I have a bit of an obsession at the moment. This young lady named Jazmine has hit the music scene with a fury. No! That’s an understatement. This singer/song writer just bust the windows out with some hard hitting and universally relatable truths.

And her smoky smooth voice really gets the message under your skin. I get goose bumps when listening to the track “In Love with Another Man.” I feel like I’m eavesdropping on a conversation that I wish I’d had the courage to have at some point in my life. She’s so gut wrenchingly honest.

With “Lions, Tigers and Bears” it feels like she picked fears right out of our collective and deepest thoughts. The message is much deeper than the title may suggest. “I’m not scared of Lions and Tigers and Bears, but I’m scared of loving you….why do we love love, when love seems to hate us?”

But the lyrics are just amplified by the rich and haunting melodies and that soulful voice. That voice! This is one for the ages, I’m sure we’ll be crying, drinking, and (fill in the blank) to Jazmine for some time to come.