BABY ROSE – Sits Beautifully In The Middle Of Jazz, Soul & Funk

Rose is a truly magnetic artiste, her smoky voice and full-bodied laugh are warm and genuine; she conveys a sense of being so full of the joys of life that her attitude is infectious.

Jasmine Rose Wilson (born August 5, 1994), known professionally as Baby Rose, is an American singe. She is an independent artist but has a distribution deal with Human Re Sources. Jasmine Rose Wilson was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina. At age nine, she got a piano and started recording songs in her adolescent years. Her family realized her talent when she was 12, and started recording songs in the studio.

After the release of her mixtape From Dusk ’til Dawn in 2017, Baby Rose has gained attention receiving co-signs from artists such as SZA, Kehlani, and J. Cole. In 2019, she featured on projects like Matt Martian’s The Last Party, Big K.R.I.T.’s K.R.I.T. Iz Here, and Dreamville’s Revenge of the Dreamers III compilation. In 2019, she went on the Shea Butter Baby tour with Ari Lennox.She released her debut album on August 22, 2019, titled To Myself.

Based in Atlanta, Baby Rose’s soulful music draws on her idols (Ray Charles, Dolly Parton, Chuck Berry) and her voice carries an uncanny, unique timbre that can’t help but recall the great voices of jazz, particularly Nina Simone and Billie Holiday.

While playing with genre conventions was absolutely a product of Rose being led by her natural creativity and curiosity, she admits that there was also something conscious to it as well, a desire to not be boxed in by anyone’s expectations of her.

It’s abundantly clear that Baby Rose is just grateful to be here at all. Not in a physical sense, but grateful to be doing what she is, in the way that she is, with an audience to hear it. She was pushed to start making music by her mother, who took her to her first studio at the age of 12. Years later, with her mother in hospital dying of cancer, she was pushed to start releasing all the music that she had racked up.

That’s not to say that she doesn’t have ambitions beyond where she’s got to; of course, all of the accolades and awards and trappings of success would be lovely, she admits, but her goal for this next phase of her journey is to be present.

If you’re looking for a way to apply Rose’s attitude to your own life, you could do worse than reminding yourself, in her words, that “no day is promised, anything can change in an instant, so let’s just be grateful and do the best that we can. After living through many generation-defining events in the space of a couple of years, the best we can hope to be is grateful, and Baby Rose is a refreshing, graceful embodiment of this.

Sonically, she sits beautifully Jazz, Soul & Funk but can sure switch up a notch that Rock N Roll vibe!