PHASE

Years before she toured the world alongside Alicia Keys, wrote songs with John Legend, belted the Southern rhythm and blues with Muddy Magnolias and kicked off a solo career with 2019''''s "Phase", Jessy Wilson grew up in Brooklyn, listening to the diverse sounds that filled her family''''s apartment. Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight and Curtis Mayfield were on the stereo. Lauryn Hill, Jay-Z and Biggie were on the radio. It was a mix of melody and movement, of soul and hip-hop. When Wilson moved to Nashville years later, she absorbed the sounds of the South, too, widening her internal soundtrack with the hard-hitting bang of rock & roll, blues and roots music. For Wilson ' a Grammy-nominated songwriter whose past includes musical theater, international tours as an R&B backup singer, and songwriting collaborations with everyone from Usher and Kanye West to Faith Hill and Macy Gray' it made sense that such a wide range of music would be compelling.