Samara Joy will be adding another checkmark to her growing list of milestones this weekend when she makes her debut on Austin City Limits. The 2025 NAACP Image Award winner and five-time Grammy-winning artist will take her bow on PBS stations nationwide tomorrow, Nov. 1 (7 p.m. CT/8 p.m. ET).

“Against all odds and all genres, Samara is that rare jazz singer who won a Grammy for best new artist,” ACL executive producer Terry Lickona tells Billboard. “Hers is a voice from the past, but also the future … a voice that comes along once in a lifetime.”

Backed by her touring band, Joy performs songs from her latest studio album Portrait as well as her breakthrough album Linger Awhile. The set list also includes a new arrangement of jazz legend Betty Carter’s “Beware My Heart.” Watch this exclus

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