Biography
Versatile singer and songwriter Lindsay Fields channels her dual passions for music and performance through the stage name Jade Novah. Following stints as a background vocalist and commissioned lyricist, she issued her first project under the Novah moniker, the 2012 mixtape Shades of Jade. Recognition also arrived via her comedic musical sketches and polished cover renditions, one of which—a take on Rihanna’s “Diamonds”—accumulated more than ten million streams across social platforms. Her inaugural proper full-length, All Blue, arrived in 2018, while the 2022 EP Moon in Pieces paired her with Kenyon Dixon, who resurfaced among the many guests on the expansive 2024 release Where Have I Been?
Born Lindsay Fields in Cleveland, Ohio, Novah absorbed rock from her father and musical theater from her mother. Church choirs and later all-female vocal ensembles shaped her early development. A chance encounter led Missy Elliott to bring her to Miami for backing vocals on the 2003 album This Is Not a Test! Additional touring experience followed with the Tyler Perry production Madea’s Big Happy Family. Shifting emphasis toward composition, she participated in writing camps and cultivated connections in New York and Los Angeles, ultimately securing a publishing contract and contributing material to Mya, Melanie Fiona, and Christina Milian as a member of the PenUp Dolls collective.
Fields resumed performing in 2012, adopting the Jade Novah alias ahead of the Shades of Jade mixtape. Attention mounted from a satirical sketch targeting Beyoncé and from cover videos that generated millions of views, notably her 2013 interpretations of Rihanna’s “Stay” and “Diamonds.” Subsequent years found her balancing songwriting and touring vocal work for Rihanna and Lady Gaga while steadily advancing her solo catalog. Additional clips on her channel included a mock holiday-album commercial in which she portrayed Beyoncé, Erykah Badu, Shakira, and others. In 2017 she and her husband, singer and multi-instrumentalist Devin Johnson, released a series of joint covers spanning Kendrick Lamar, Whitney Houston, and Ed Sheeran. Jade Novah’s official debut album, All Blue, emerged mid-2018 via Let There Be Art/Empire. That same year she served as a vocal coach on Fox’s The Four: Battle for Stardom, and in 2019 she received an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding New Artist.
Her sophomore album, Stages, appeared on Let There Be Art in 2020 and featured Eric Bellinger alongside Jared Brady. After performing on one of Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty presentations, she issued the six-track EP Moon in Pieces in 2022, highlighted by the Kenyon Dixon collaboration “Rollercoaster.” She also joined the vocal ensemble of the game show That’s My Jam that year and lent her voice to two characters on a 2023 episode of The Simpsons. The subsequent Let There Be Art project, the hour-long concept album Where Have I Been?, incorporated appearances by Leslie Odom, Jr., Kenyon Dixon, Wayne Brady, and Tank and the Bangas’ “Tank” Bell, among others, and was helmed by Johnson.
Born Lindsay Fields in Cleveland, Ohio, Novah absorbed rock from her father and musical theater from her mother. Church choirs and later all-female vocal ensembles shaped her early development. A chance encounter led Missy Elliott to bring her to Miami for backing vocals on the 2003 album This Is Not a Test! Additional touring experience followed with the Tyler Perry production Madea’s Big Happy Family. Shifting emphasis toward composition, she participated in writing camps and cultivated connections in New York and Los Angeles, ultimately securing a publishing contract and contributing material to Mya, Melanie Fiona, and Christina Milian as a member of the PenUp Dolls collective.
Fields resumed performing in 2012, adopting the Jade Novah alias ahead of the Shades of Jade mixtape. Attention mounted from a satirical sketch targeting Beyoncé and from cover videos that generated millions of views, notably her 2013 interpretations of Rihanna’s “Stay” and “Diamonds.” Subsequent years found her balancing songwriting and touring vocal work for Rihanna and Lady Gaga while steadily advancing her solo catalog. Additional clips on her channel included a mock holiday-album commercial in which she portrayed Beyoncé, Erykah Badu, Shakira, and others. In 2017 she and her husband, singer and multi-instrumentalist Devin Johnson, released a series of joint covers spanning Kendrick Lamar, Whitney Houston, and Ed Sheeran. Jade Novah’s official debut album, All Blue, emerged mid-2018 via Let There Be Art/Empire. That same year she served as a vocal coach on Fox’s The Four: Battle for Stardom, and in 2019 she received an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding New Artist.
Her sophomore album, Stages, appeared on Let There Be Art in 2020 and featured Eric Bellinger alongside Jared Brady. After performing on one of Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty presentations, she issued the six-track EP Moon in Pieces in 2022, highlighted by the Kenyon Dixon collaboration “Rollercoaster.” She also joined the vocal ensemble of the game show That’s My Jam that year and lent her voice to two characters on a 2023 episode of The Simpsons. The subsequent Let There Be Art project, the hour-long concept album Where Have I Been?, incorporated appearances by Leslie Odom, Jr., Kenyon Dixon, Wayne Brady, and Tank and the Bangas’ “Tank” Bell, among others, and was helmed by Johnson.
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