Alma Naidu is a 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 renowned drummer and producer Wolfgang Haffner recognized her talent immediately; he discovered Alma in 2019 and introduced her on his album 'Kind of Tango'.
After delighting the audience with her band at performances in Munich and all over Germany as well as live stream performances during the Corona crisis in 2020 and 2021, the singer is now starting to release her own original music. Her first three singles 'White Tulip' and 'Something 'bout the Rain' and ‘Illusion', written and co-produced by herself and produced by Wolfgang Haffner, are available on all streaming platforms. Her debut album 'Alma' will be released on February 11th 2022.
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After studying jazz singing at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich from 2016, she then spent a year at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she studied with the renowned singer and ECM artist Norma Winstone.
At the age of just 25, she has won the Gasteig competition, Jugend jazzt, the Kurt Mass Jazz Award, this year's BMW Welt Young Artist Jazz Award, the Bavarian Prize for Emerging Artists and received the first scholarship of the Grizzly Jazz Foundation.