Jamila Woods

Musician, poet, and multidisciplinary artist from the South Side of Chicago, Jamila Woods, creates modern, soul-rooted RnB infused with pro-black and romantic themes.


Her latest album, Water Made Us, is a genre-blending exploration of love and surrender. It follows HEAVN, which celebrated community and Black feminist movement organising, and Legacy! Legacy!, which honoured the influence of iconic Black and brown artists through deeply personal storytelling.

Jamila has been featured on NPR's Tiny Desk, CBS This Morning, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and has shared stages with Corinne Bailey Rae, Bonobo, Common, Chance the Rapper, Brittany Howard, and many others.

An award-winning poet, Jamila's work blurs boundaries between poem and song. As cultural critic Doreen St. Felix writes, "It makes you wish all singers were poets."