Concert Review: Jazmine Sullivan Is The Highest Vibration
Jazmine Sullivan is one of the greatest singers I have ever heard in this music industry, and I am fully prepared to die on that hill. A pure talent that wields her voice like a magical wand, she mystified her Kings’ Theatre audience with her capabilities as much as her capacity. You see Jazmine can hit every note from here to the moon, but a star is born by how they hit that note to brighten it further. Like Mariah or Whitney, Jazmine proved why she deserves to be one-name icon.
I have been a Jazmine Sullivan fan ever since I was a kid, which means I have followed the highs and lows her record career. She has been blessed with a major burden that, often, happens in the music industry: what do you do with a really big talent? The music industry is a place of images and surrealities, but Jazmine revealed, as a performer, her humanity and thus her universality. She is old school; standing on the stage with not too much movement from place and letting her voice ricochet across the room like a bullet smashing through all our self-reflections. She breaks you down to the emotional bone just by how GOOD she sounds as a singer, and it was HARD not to hear an “Oh MY GOD!” from the crowd every 5 seconds.
Sullivan felt the crowd’s love and returned it right back. She was MADE from the cloth of God to do this. I mean that! So many of us are still trying to find our purpose, but she embodies music. She flirts and riffs through notes like an episode of Bridgerton, and the crowd adores it, especial when she harmonizes with back-up singers or improvs by singing to them. The night felt so destined and friendly as if we were all always meant to see her, and that, to me, makes her iconic. From Whitney to Mariah, these divas’ fans feel like they KNOW them, which has made their concert experience feel more like a homecoming than a music show. I loved that feeling and get sentimental writing this because Jazmine Sullivan performs in a way that reminds you music is about remembrance; it is our daily reminder that we are alive in beauty. That’s why I’m, personally, picky on what high vibration music I hear, and Jazmine Sullivan is the highest.
