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Award-winning vocalist Janiva Magness is among the premier blues and R&B singers in the world today. Her voice possesses an earthy, raw honesty and beauty born from her life experience. A charismatic ...

PORT TOWNSEND — In celebration of her new album, “Stronger for It,” blues and soul singer Janiva Magness is coming back this Sunday to The Upstage, a club she readily raves about. “It’s really ...

Janiva Magness has a voice that’s made for the blues. In conversation, it is low and slightly worn, but with a directness that conveys exactly how she feels. When she sings it is even more distinctive ...

Veteran blues and roots-music singer Janiva Magness has some illustrious guests on her 14th and newest album, “Love Is An Army.” They include veteran vocalist Delbert McClinton, harmonica ace Charlie ...

GRAND RAPIDS — After 19 years, WLAV-FM’s Tony Gates still marvels at the mix of fans drawn every summer to the LAV Budweiser Blues on the Mall concerts on Rosa Parks Circle downtown. “It truly is a ...

Janiva Magness has diligently forged a career that’s seen her rise steadily to the top in the world of blues. With The Devil Is An Angel Too, she proves there’s far more than typical twelve-bar ...

As a teenaged orphan, blues singer Janiva Magness moved between foster care and the street. She didn't have much. Food was scarce, money tight. She was alone, living a chaotic life. And then she heard ...

Fast forward to 2010, and Magness is riding rightfully high, having recently released her ninth and possibly greatest album, The Devil Is an Angel Too (Alligator). Although a longtime Los Angeleno, ...

Somewhere between my office, the kitchen and the bedroom for nearly two years, I began completely questioning whether I was going to continue in the business of music, writes soul/blues ...

Janiva Magness begins her no-holds-barred and inspirational memoir, “Weeds Like Us,” by admitting her amazement when she won the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year award at the Blues Music Awards in ...