CHINA MOSES
China Moses is a high voltage soul/jazz diva with a career as a singer as well as presenter for MTV France, TSF JazzRadio, and more. The daughter of Dee Dee Bridgewater and director Gilbert Moses was born in Los Angeles and raised in Paris, France. Her albums brought her work with renowned names including DJ Mehdi, Karriem Riggins, Meshell Ndegeocello, and Anthony Marshall among others.
After the release of her first single “Time” at the age of 16, successful albums followed and in 2009 she released the album “This One’s For Dinah” (Blue Note), a tribute to her idol Dinah Washington, with pianist Raphaël Lemonnier. China and Raphaël continued working together in 2012, releasing the album “Crazy Blues” (Decca/UMG), named by the UK “Times” as one of the Top 100 albums of 2013. These projects took her on the road, where Moses developed a keen sense of stage. On her last album ‘Nightintales’ (EDEL), China turned her attention to carving out her own terrain. The resulting twelve songs are destined to become new standards.
Like an archer, Moses draws from the quiver of her musical forebears, sending arrows true and further than those who preceded her. She is the rare, young, female artist capable of swinging with the finest and drawing on her innate mastery of tempo. Her R&B heritage allows her to smile around a phrase, carry emotions across a lyric, and infuse profundity into every note.
With her latest project ‘Classical Soul’, China is surrounded by a cross-genre cadre of musicians, poised to reinvent the Jazz Vocal archetype for a new age, jettisoning that which is unneeded on her trajectory - taking listeners beyond the known to a universe uniquely her own. China’s new album ‘It’s Complicated’ is set to be released in Spring 2024.