She is – Chrisette Michele

You might have heard her on Jay-Z’s ‘Lost One‘ or Nas’ ‘Can’t forget about you‘ and thought it was a sample. Chrisette herself claims ‘I’ve been studying Miss Billy, Miss Ella, Miss Sarah Vaughan and Miss Natalie Cole’ and that’s more than obvious because her voice has a classic and mature quality that the music scene has been lacking for decades.