Molly Johnson

She’s one of Canada’s finest vocal signatures. Instinctive, natural and committed, Molly Johnson has created a funky, soulful, groovy jazz that’s very much her own. Her career began in the mid-60s with Porgy and Bess at Toronto’s Royal Alexander Theatre: she was barely ten years old. She went on to dance and rock before releasing her first jazz album in 2020, and today is just as at home with her own compositions as with the great classics of the repertoire. Particularly inspired by Billie Holiday, she claims the same quality for music as for active humanism. On stage, as elsewhere, she is a generous woman who loves, who dares, who vibrates in song…