Live from the UK:Joy Keys chats w/ Saxophonist YolanDa Brown

YolanDa’s 1st album, April Showers, May Flowers, is a beautifully sculpted record that touches lightly on jazz and soul and R&B, each track bestowed with the kind of lyrical insight - on love, on life - that suggests its author is something of a poet, too.
                              
YolanDa works within the charity sector as ambassador for both the Prince's Trust and the Yamaha Class Band, an initiative that visits schools in underprivileged areas encouraging children to pick up an instrument. She is also currently backing Plan UK's Because I Am A Girl campaign, and is a patron of the Mayor of London's Fund for Young Musicians.

 

YolanDa Brown is endorsed by Yamaha, Guess Jeans, MAC cosmetics and adidas to name a few.

 

A well as being a musician she is a business woman. YolanDa holds two Masters Degrees in Operations Management. She is fluent in Spanish. Last year YolanDa was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts by the University of East London. http://www.yolandabrown.co.uk/