MP3: J’Danna – ‘Winter in America’
Posted In New Music,Soul by Toasty
On Saturday 21st January, the PinBoard team headed down to the cool corner of Camden, London – Koko to be precise for Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Awards 2012, which was a stellar night of great music – review coming soon.
Whilst there, we were blown away by 15 year old singer J’Danna from South London who sang a tribute live. We were amazed by her rendition of the Gill Scott Heron original and the tender yet mature control over her future soul voice. Floating over the deep two step production works perfectly and gives a new lease of life to the 1974 classic.
Not much more is known about the youngster, other than she has been freshly signed to hip hop collective’s 2Morrow’s Victory’s own label. We will keep watch, of course. Listen and download below.
[...] one has certainly been an office anthem the past couple of weeks. J’Danna is FIFTEEN YEARS OLD with this Gil Scott Heron tribute cover of Winter In America. No sign of who [...]