2021 GRAMMY-winner Ledisi is a 14-time GRAMMY-nominated powerhouse vocalist with a career spanning almost two decades. She’s garnered three Soul Train Music awards, an NAACP Theatre Award, and 13 NAACP Image Award nominations. Most recently, she received two LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award nominations, one for best featured actress in a musical. Born in New Orleans and raised in Oakland, California, she is a favorite of the Obamas as well as a long list of icons including Prince, Patti LaBelle, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, and Chaka Khan. Tonight marks Ledisi’s Philadelphia Orchestra debut.

No stranger to the film and television world, Ledisi landed a role in her first feature, singing in the George Clooney–directed film Leatherheads, in 2008. In 2015 she portrayed the great Mahalia Jackson in the Oscar-nominated movie Selma and had a notable performance in Gabourey Sidibe’s Shatterbox Anthology film The Tale of Four. Ledisi secured her first television role playing the legendary Patti LaBelle on the hit BET series American Soul. She also starred in the BET Plus drama Twice Bitten. This year she landed the starring role in the film Remember Me: The Story of Mahalia Jackson. To cap off an amazing year, she will also portray the incomparable Gladys Knight in the long-awaited film based on Neil Bogart’s career, Spinning Gold, the story of Casablanca Records.