* Janiva Magness Band (at Bull Run Restaurant)

​Janiva Magness Band


4-28-2016

Janiva Magness is among the premier blues and R&B singers in the world today, possessing an earthy, raw honesty born from her life experience. A charismatic performer known for her electrifying live shows, she is a gutsy and dynamic powerhouse. She received the coveted 2009 Blues Music Award for B.B. King Entertainer Of The Year (the second woman to ever win this award, Koko Taylor was the first). She also wonContemporary Blues Female Artist Of The Year, an honor she received in 2006 and 2007. She has received a total ofseventeen Blues Music Award nominations. In 2015 she was nominated for Song of the Year for "Let Me Breathe" -Contemporary Blues Album for her CD, "Original" and she wonContemporary Blues Female Artist Of The Year. Her 12th and newest CD, "Love Wins Again," is due in April, just in time for this show. Get a signed copy!

Love Wins Again's 11 core songs and two bonus tracks are built on a sonically sophisticated architecture that’s in full service of Magness’ remarkably flexible and generous voice, which can flow as smoothly as champagne or churn up gravel on command and shattering genre barriers by enshrining elements of Americana, soul, rock, pop, country and blues.

USA Today declared, “Magness is a blues star,” and The Philadelphia Inquirer said, “Magness sings superbly, with a scorching intensity.”

Born near Detroit, Magness immersed herself in records by James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Etta James and all the other R&B greats. She formed her first band, Janiva Magness and The Mojomatics in 1985, and soon after the influential Phoenix New Times named her group the city’s Best Blues Band. The Chicago Sun-Times raved, “Her songs run the gamut of emotions from sorrow to joy. A master of the lowdown blues who is equally at ease surrounded by funk or soul sounds, Magness invigorates every song with a brutal honesty,” while Blues Revue called her “a blues interpreter of the highest rank…punchy and tough…swaggering, incendiary vocal performances.” Fueled by all the positive press, National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition profiled Magness, putting her in front of an audience of millions and expanding her ever-growing fan base. Living Blues declared, “Accolades come easy when you’re this good. Magness is blessed with smoky, seductive pipes that bend the blues into pure enchantment. Her steely conviction is authentic, soulful and playful. The emotion rings true.” 

"Hopefully, this recording will bring the rest of the world to Janiva, and then they'll know, like I know, that she's one of the "real deals" out there." - Bettye LaVett

“One of the most fiery and original vocalists in contemporary blues and soul… Thoughtful, inventive and almost unerringly on the money.” - MOJO
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