Called "the next great male jazz singer" by NPR Music, artist Gregory Porter comes to Mayo Performing Arts Center on Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 8 pm. Tickets are $29 - $59
Winner of the 2014 Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album, Gregory Porter has quickly made a name for himself due to his rich voice that fuses jazz, soul and R&B into a unique sound that has critics calling him a cross between Nat King Cole and Bill Withers. An artist whose music is at once timeless yet utterly of its time, Gregory Porter solidifies his standing as his generation's most soulful jazz singer-songwriter with the May 6 release of Take Me to the Alley, the much-anticipated follow-up to his million-selling Grammy-winning 2013 Blue Note debut Liquid Spirit. "Holding On" was premiered in 2016 on Apple Music's Beats 1 and finds Porter presenting his decidedly different version of the Disclosure single that he was the featured vocalist on and co-wrote for their album Caracal. "I decided to do the song the way that I would have recorded it on my record," Porter says. "It's a way of saying that a song is a song is a song. The lyrics and the intention of the song come through no matter what kind of bells and whistles are going on." The rousing, bluesy stomp "Don't Lose Your Steam" is dedicated to Porter's three-year-old son with encouraging lyrics about staying committed one's goals regardless of hardship.Videos