Alma Naidu

Alma Naidu is an award-winning singer, composer and lyricist based in Munich, Germany. She was
described as 'one of the most promising singers on the German scene' by Süddeutsche Zeitung, the
magazine Jazzthing praised her 'delicate, wonderfully clear voice with absolutely perfect
intonation'.
The singer and composer has performed at the Nublu Festival New York, the Leverkusener Jazztage
and the Jazzweek Burghausen among others. In the last years, she has toured to India, Mongolia,
the USA and to Japan and shared the stage with Nils Landgren, Bobby McFerrin and Wolfgang
Haffner, on whose last two albums she was featured (ACT 2020 & 2022).
She was awarded with the the BMW Welt Young Artist Jazz Award, the Kurt Maas Jazz award as well
as the Bavarian Prize for Emerging Artists.
In early 2022, her self-titled debut album Alma (Leopard Records) was released, on which Alma
Naidu presents music that she wrote and arranged herself. The album made it into the top 10 of the
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German jazz charts and gained widespread international attention with articles in the Rolling Stone
magazine and various „Album of the Month“ placements, such as Jazz at Lincoln Center.
The twelve songs are based on a core line-up of drums (Wolfgang Haffner), bass (Claus Fischer)
and keys (Simon Oslender), prominently complemented by top-class guest contributions from Nils
Landgren and Dominic Miller, among others.
With her own band, in which Alma Naidu also plays the keyboard instruments, she regularly plays on
the most important stages and festivals in Germany and abroad. The music of the artist trained in
jazz and classical music is influenced by jazz, pop, soul and film music. Soulful pieces, touching and
energetic.
In addition to her jazz career, the singer appeared in various musical theatre and opera productions
such as "Rosaly - das Mädchen aus Glas" as Rosaly (Munich, 2016), "Highlights from Lion King" as
Nala (Salzburg, 2017), "Lovemusik" (Musikalische Komödie Leipzig, 2018), “Jesus Christ
Superstar" (State Theatre Augsburg, 2019) and „Angel’s Bone“ (2023).