Jazz Articles about Lena Seikaly

Lena Seikaly at the Attucks Theater

by Mark Robbins
April 24, 2020

Lena Seikaly is not a household name... yet! The jny:Washington D.C. native has been called one of the “brightest voices in jazz" and her new fans at the sold out Attucks Theatre performance could not agree more. Classically trained as an operatic mezzo-soprano her phrasing, intonation, and full bodied tone is reminiscent of Ella Fitzgerald. She is a natural storyteller so when she sings “You Don't Know What Love Is" you believe she knows the “meaning of the blues" or ...