This is The Beat, and we are joined by a new Grammy nominee.

Samara Joy is nominated for Best Jazz Vocal album and Best New Artist, which is a big category.

Past winners include Olivia Rodrigo, Megan the Stallion, and Billy Eilish.

She is 23 years old and injecting a new energy into jazz, one of America's original genres.

Indeed, she went viral performing Duke Ellington's Take Love Easy, a song originally sung by

Ella Fitzgerald.

Take love easy, easy, easy, easy, easy, easy.

On the free and easy plan

and if you can't take love easy take it easy as you can. Thanks for being here. Maybe we'll take it easy as you can.

Thanks for being here.

Maybe we'll take it easy as we talk music.

Thank you so much for having me.

It's an honor.

Absolutely.

What an exciting time this is for you.

First question is really straightforward.

Was it surprising to get these Grammy nominations?

How do you feel? It was beyond surprising. I was not expecting this at all, but I'm really, really grateful and

honored to be recognized by such a prestigious and wonderful organization, the biggest thing

for music, really. So I'm excited.

We don't want to overdo the age thing. Music is a space where you have a lot of young, vital people sort of, we see that, we

see young stars, we see people sometimes late teens, 20s, but I think it's fair to say that

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