Lady Jay – Queen City Sounds and Art

LadyJay1_crop — Lady Jay, photo courtesy the artist

Ghanaian singer and songwriter Lady Jay delivers a powerful example of her soulful and sultry voice on her new single/video “Freedom.” A song about personal empowerment in what seem to be especially dark times right now. Without aiming the song to be about a particular demographic or nationality, Lady Jay’s song has a universal quality with its soaring choruses and written in a pop style that doesn’t suggest a narrow subgenre but, rather, classic songcraft and accompanied only by a hint of chimes and expansive but subtly tasteful piano. It is a declaration of liberation that can resonate with anyone while also working as simply a great song with arresting vocals. Jay and her pianist are garbed in white raiments and jewelry with caged doves that are symbolically set free as Jay floats upward off the ground as if imbued with divine powers, the spark of which various world spiritual traditions believe exist in everyone and everything and which is justification enough for mutual respect and freedom. Symbolic but not heavy handed, the video for “Freedom” is a beautiful and compelling expression of Lady Jay’s words and her own obvious passion for all people to experience the freedom about which she sings. Watch/listen below and follow Lady Jay at the links provided.