ABOUT
Samantha Lindo is a new wave jazz and RnB artist of dual British & Jamaican heritage recently featured on the BBC Sounds Hot List curated by BBC Introducing & BBC 6 Music. She is described as having a voice that is ‘hauntingly flawless’, ‘having crowds mesmerised within seconds’.
She launched her single ‘Turn & Leave’ at the TEDx ‘Daring to Disrupt’ event in front of 1M+ online at the Bristol Beacon. It was featured in award winning short film ‘About’, currently streaming on Amazon Prime; was included in Saffron Records 2020 playlist; and was a Sofar Sounds featured video, filmed live supporting James Morrison at their ‘Give a Home’ campaign for Amnesty International.
She co-founded the all female arts collective Girls Girls Girls with singer-songwriter, Eliza Shaddad, touring the UK, including London's Union Chapel, and appeared as featured artists in the Museum of London’s ‘Votes for Women’ exhibition. She curated & played at the sold out 10th anniversary show at St George’s Bristol alongside Brit Nominee, Beth Rowley.
She appeared in The Guardian’s photographic essay in 2019. She was telling the story of being arrested for standing in solidarity with a woman who was indigenous to the Amazon, protesting to save her home, which inspired her single, Lips. The track was released at a sell out show in Bristol and celebrated all the women stepping up into activism across the world to demand a just and urgent response to the climate crisis.
As a budding broadcaster having spoken on BBC Radio 4, she launched her single 'Underside' and accompanying podcast at Rough Trade in collaboration with Time to Change, a national mental health campaign, alongside a live session performed at BBC Bristol.
She worked on her last single, ‘Those Kids’, with bassist and producer, Marla Kether, who plays with Loyle Carner, Ego Ella May, Yasmin Lacey and the Ezra Collective. She produced & directed the music video in collaboration with ballet Rambert dancer highlighting youth homelessness in Bristol and was chosen to perform at the Bristol Takeover for emerging artists at Bristol Beacon last November.
She was recently awarded an Arts Council project grant to write and record her new album, 'Ancestry', exploring dual heritage identity, intergenerational healing and climate justice through her family history.
She worked with producer Doug Cave (from Bristol bands Cousin Kula and Hippo), whose music features regularly on BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music and has frequent rotation on Spotify's jazz/leftfield playlists; drummer Chris Langton from new wave jazz collective Snazzback; bass player Christopher Chikwandah; composer & keys player Alex Veitch, and Jackson Lapes from the Worm Disco club and Dundundun on percussion.
Her music sits on a spectrum, balancing between the classic sound of artists like Marvin Gaye, Carole King and Minnie Riperton, and Robert Glasper-esque RnB and jazz, inspired by the likes of Cleo Sol, Sault, Michael Kiwanuka and Jordan Rakei, as well as spoken word artists like Arlo Parks, Kae Tempest and Self Esteem.
Her album was championed by the likes of Gilles Peterson on BBC 6 Music, Jamie Cullum on the BBC Radio 2 Jazz Show and described at ‘exceptional’ by Clash magazine. It was featured on Bandcamp’s international Best of 2023 show alongside Cleo Sol, Sampha and the Yussef Dayes.