This is Fresh Air, I'm Terry Gross. On today's holiday show, we're going to listen back to a delightful recent performance and interview with Jazz singer Samara Joy.

Earlier this year, she became the second Jazz performer in Grammy history to win the award for Best New Artist.

To top it off, she also won the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album.

The album is called Linger a while, which has now been released in a Deluxe edition with some bonus material including alternate arrangements.

Samara Joy is 23 and didn't really immerse herself in jazz until she was in college.

When she was studying music at the State University of New York's Purchase College, she won the Saravan International Jazz Vocal Competition, which helped launch her career.

She comes from a family of gospel singers, her grandparents co-founded a gospel group in Philadelphia called the Saveats, and traveled around Philadelphia preaching in their Godmobile.

Her father is a singer and bass player who toured with gospel star, Andre Krauch.

Samara Joy was a soloist in her church choir in the Bronx. For her Fresh Air Performance, she was joined by Cameron Campbell at the piano, Michael Migliari bass, and Evan Sherman drums.

They joined us from the WNYC Studios in New York.

Welcome to all of you. Thank you so much for coming. Samara, I really love your singing and it's so great to have you here.

I'd like to start with a song that you include on the new album. It's a song by Frank Lesser who also wrote the score for Guys and Dolls and Jimmy McHugh.

The song is Can't Get Out of This Moody, and I'm wondering why did you choose this song? What does it mean to you? How did you first hear it? It's not a song that many people do.

I heard this first from Sarah Vaughan and later on from Nina Simone, and I realized that at the time of choosing it, I was attracted to a lot of sadder torch songs.

And so when I heard it, I was like, this is something a little bit more upbeat and positive to add to the repertoire, and that's why I love to sing it.

I'd love for you to sing it now.

Here we go.

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