Artist Spotlight: Selina Albright In The Spotlight

We spotlight Selina Albright, a Los Angeles native now based in London, and trace how her voice and fearless versatility cut across smooth jazz, R&B, soul, and even EDM. We also step back into Women’s History Month to connect the roots of the movement to today’s fight over voting access and the proposed Save America Act. 

• Selina Albright’s vocal tone, range, and emotional delivery as a listener experience 
• The musical influences we hear in her phrasing and style across jazz and modern soul 
• Key releases and milestones from “Brighter” to “Conversations” to “Dishonest Smile” 
• Big-name collaborations and why genre boundaries do not define her career 
• Women’s History Month timeline from early protests to a national month of recognition 
• Why the Save America Act sparks outrage around voter ID, early voting, and mail ballots 
• How name changes, caregiving, and shift work can turn “policy” into real barriers 
• The organizing surge and why women’s political power keeps reshaping elections 

Do yourself a favor today. Go stream Dishonest Smile, dive into the Conversations album, follow her journey. 

Alrighty now, be sure you download and or stream Selina Albright's music and be sure to check out her next concert. 

Visit GreatDayRadioSmoothJazz.com. 

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Transcript

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Hey everyone. Welcome to Great Day Radio's Smooth Jazz Artist Spotlight. I'm DJ Mikey D bringing you the four one one, and today we are shining that spotlight on an absolute force of nature. We're talking about the Los Angeles native, now London based independent singer songwriter Selena Albright. Now if you haven't heard her name yet, where have you been? But seriously, let me tell you why she commands your attention. This artist has an almost supernatural way of evoking powerful, raw, emotional responses. It's not just singing, it's an experience. She's got this sultry, angelic tone, but then she'll hit you with these elaborate vocal arrangements and multi octave wails that just pierce directly to the soul. Her spirit comes through the speakers, man. It's undeniable. Let's talk style. You can hear the legends in her voice, right? The elegance of Ella Fitzgerald, the soulful runs of Minnie Ripperton, the sheer power of a Whitney Houston. But then you've got the smoothness of Maxwell and D'Angelo in there, the playful flair of a Beyonce, the intimate vibe of an Amolario. It's a master class in balance. That blend is the key to her wild versatility. It empowers her to float from a straight ahead jazz project to a deep RNB groove to a soulful house track without missing a beat. She's not boxed in, and that's so refreshing. And as a person, she's sassy, jubilant, she loves her high quality food adventures. Follow her socials, you'll see she pulls back the curtain and lets you in. And then she does this magical therapeutic thing, she transforms those real life experiences, the good, the bad, the messy, into these intimate, relatable lyrics wrapped in the velvety melodies. It's music that feels like a conversation with a close friend. Let's get into the hits, because the numbers don't lie. Her single You and I was chilling in iTunes Top 100 jazz downloads back in 2020. Rewind to 2013, her release Brighter topped the UK soul chart for a whole month. Four weeks straight. Then her twenty seventeen debut R and B soul album Conversations, that's the one that really put her on the map internationally. People were listening from Tokyo to Toronto. 2020 was a big year too. She dropped two number one hit singles, Discovering and Holding On. But let's talk about the global moment, the one that's still ringing in playlists everywhere. Her biggest single worldwide, hands down, is the 2022 rhythm and blues hit Dishonest Smile, you know that song. That's the one with the groove that sinks into your bones and the lyrics that call out that fake, everything's fine facade we all see sometimes. It's a masterpiece of modern soul. Now her collaborative resume. It's insane. We're talking recorded features with legends like her father, the saxophone great Gerald Albright, the gospel icon Andre Crouch, smooth jazz giants like Peter White, Dave Cause, Rick Braun, David Benoit, Lynn Roundtree, Jonathan Butler. The list goes on and on. And just when you think you've got her pegged as a jazz and soul artist, she pivots. She's jumped into the electronic dance music world, working with DJs like manufactured superstars and forcing function. It shows yet another facet of her creativity. She's an artist, period, not a genre. But you know what might be even more impressive than the studio work? The stage. Her international performance history is a tour diary of dreams. She's done her own solo tours across the globe and she's shared the stage with Okay, take a deep breath because I'm about to run through a Hall of Fame list. Pianist Jeff Lorber, the late great George Duke, Joe Sample, Brian Culbertson, Keiko Matsui. Guitarist Peter White, Nick Collione, Adam Hawley. Bassists Marcus Miller. Marcus Miller, Gerald Veasley, Saxophonists, this is a whole league of its own, Gerald Albright, Massio Parker, David Sanborn, Kirk Whalem, Steve Cole, Boney James, Jeff Kashiwa, Eric Darius, Candy Dolfer, Flautist Althea Renee, trumpeters like Hugh Mesakela, Rick Braun, and the vocalists she stood next to Chaka Khan, Will Downing, Eric Roberts, Regina Bell, Algebra Bless it. The Temptations, I mean, come on. That's not just a resume, that's a legacy in the making. So what's next for Selena Albright? More. More incredible collaborations, more solo releases that we get to dissect and fall in love with, and undoubtedly more delicious food adventures that we all get to live vicariously through. She is the definition of an independent artist thriving on her own terms. She's versatile, she's powerful, she's deeply connected to her craft and her fans. She is without a doubt an artist whose voice and spirit command attention. Do yourself a favor today. Go stream Dishonest Smile, dive into the Conversations album, follow her journey. You're witnessing an artist who is genuinely therapeutically transforming life into art, and we are all better for it. Alrighty now, be sure you download and or stream Selena Albright's music and be sure to check out her next concert. Remember, by you supporting these amazing artists, they in return are able to give you amazing music. I will post a link to her website at GreatDay RadioSmooth Jazz dot com. How about this for a transition? Next up we will be recognizing International Women's Month. Stay locked in after this brief message. Hey everyone, welcome to the Hustle Blueprint. I'm your host, DJ Mikey D. Let's cut right to the chase today. We're talking about turning that side hustle dream into your main income stream, and this show is brought to you by the team that can actually make it happen, Mentorship Heroes. Their message is simple. Stop dreaming and start earning. 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Picture this, hundreds of women who worked in garment and textile factories in New York City. They walked out, they rallied together to protest some seriously harsh working conditions. That was over one hundred and sixty years ago. That right there is the spark. Fast forward to nineteen oh eight, fifteen thousand women marched through those same New York City streets. Their demands? Shorter hours, better pay, and end to child labor, and the right to vote. The very next year in nineteen oh nine, the city hosted the nation's first official women's day celebration, and that idea went global, becoming International Women's Day in nineteen eleven. But here in the US, the story of turning a day into a month is a cool one. It actually starts in a school district. nineteen seventy eight, Sonoma, California. They organized the first women's history week around that march eighth date, and it just caught fire, spread across the country like a hit record. It got so popular that by nineteen eighty one, Congress officially set aside the second week of March as National Women's History Week. And you know how it goes. Once you get a taste of a good thing, you want more. By nineteen eighty seven, Congress expanded it to the entire month of March, and since nineteen ninety five, every US president has issued a proclamation to make it official. So what's the point of all this? It's a month to intentionally honor the successes and the sacrifices of women throughout American history. It's about recognizing contributions to society that often got overlooked in the history books. We're talking science, politics, arts, civil rights, education you name it. It's also a time to take stock, you know, to reflect on the advances, gains in education, more opportunities in the workforce, progress on earnings, though let's be real, the work on that pay gap is far from over. It's about celebrating how far we've come while honestly looking at how far we still have to go. So this month, I challenge you, and I'm challenging myself too, to dig a little deeper. Learn about one woman from history you've never heard of. Support a woman owned business. Have a conversation about the women who've shaped your own life. History isn't just in the past, we're making it every day. Okay, before I wrap up this program, I have to discuss current challenges women are up against that I would like to discuss. We're going to unpack something that's been dominating the headlines and stirring up a lot of strong feelings. We're in the middle of women's history month, a time to celebrate achievements and reflect on struggles. But right now there's a political firestorm that feels like it's pulling us back into history, not celebrating it. I'm talking about the proposed Save America Act. Proponents call it an election integrity bill, but for a huge and vocal part of the electorate, specifically for millions of American women, this legislation feels like something else entirely. It feels like a direct assault, an attack on their hard won rights and their historical legacy. So let's get into it. First, what's in the bill? The Save America Act includes provisions for stricter voter ID requirements, significant limitations on mail and ballots, and reductions in early voting periods. On paper, to some, these might sound like neutral administrative changes. But the reaction has been anything but neutral. It's been visceral. And to understand why you have to go back, way back. For so many women, the right to vote isn't some abstract line in a textbook. It's a tangible inheritance. It was passed down from mothers, grandmothers, and great grandmothers who fought, literally fought for the nineteenth Amendment. They marched, they were arrested, they went on hunger strikes. It was a multi generational battle against a system that said they were unfit, that their voices didn't matter in civic life. So when a bill comes along that makes it harder to vote, it doesn't just feel like bad policy. It feels like a direct insult to that legacy. It feels like spitting on the graves of those suffragettes. I spoke to a community organizer at a rally last week and she put it perfectly. She said they didn't fight for decades just for us to have that right chipped away piece by piece. This isn't just about one election, it's about honoring that struggle, and she's right. But let's move from the symbolic to the practical, because this is where the bill really shows its teeth and why women are feeling so specifically targeted. Take the stricter voter ID laws. Seems simple, right? Have an ID. But for women, it's not that simple. Women are far more likely to change their names after marriage or divorce. That can create a mismatch between your driver's license, your social security card, and your voter registration. Fixing that? It's a bureaucratic nightmare. It costs money, it takes time off work, it's standing in lines at government offices. It's a hurdle, and it's a hurdle that statistically men just don't face in the same way. Then there's the reduction in early voting and inflexible polling hours. Who does that hurt? Think about the demographic that still in twenty twenty four bears the disproportionate share of caregiving. For children, for elderly parents, that's women. A working mother can't just duck out of her job whenever she wants. She needs flexibility. Early voting weekends, extended hours, mail in ballots, these are lifelines. They're what makes civic participation possible amidst the chaos of real life. When you cut those options, you're not cutting convenience. You're cutting access. And for homebound individuals, for people with unpredictable shift work, for parents of newborns, again, roles where women are overrepresented, mail in ballots aren't a luxury, they're a necessity. Removing that tool isn't neutral, it's a systemic obstacle. So when you layer the historical insult on top of these very real practical burdens, the intense mobilization makes complete sense. This isn't an overreaction, it's a calculated response. Women know their political power. We've seen it election after election. The gender gap is a decisive force, and whenever voting rights are threatened, women have a proven history of showing up, not just as voters, but as organizers, as phone bankers, as candidates. The Save America Act has acted like a catalyst sparking a wildfire of grassroots action. It's postcard campaigns, community meetings, and yes, protests in the streets. They see this as a defining moment, a line in the sand. Because in their view, this isn't about securing elections, it's about securing a certain outcome by making it harder for a specific demographic to participate. And that demographic is saying not again. They are drawing a direct line from the suffragettes to themselves and then to their daughters. They are refusing to be the generation that lets that legacy erode. Political analysts are watching this closely, you do not want to awaken this electoral force, because when women are unified around an issue they perceive as fundamental to their autonomy and their place in democracy, they become an incredibly formidable block. This battle over the Save America Act has demonstrated once again that when the foundations of democratic participation are challenged, women are very often on the front lines of its defense. They remember the past, they're living the present, and they are fiercely determined to protect the future. It's a powerful lesson, not just for women's history month, but for every month. That's all the time we have for today on the front lines. This is DJ Mikey D, asking you to look beyond the headlines, understand the history, and listen to the voices that are rising up. Because context is everything. Let's end this with a track that feels like progress. Take care, everyone. Be sure to share the love and the support. Peace out.