New York native Lindsey Webster has earned acclaim as a chart-topping vocalist and songwriter whose work spans straight-ahead jazz, traditional pop, soulful smooth jazz, adult contemporary, and crossover R&B. From 2016 through 2018 she lodged ten tracks on the Smooth Jazz Songs charts, two of them reaching number one and making her the first jazz vocalist to achieve that feat since Sade. Four of her albums also performed strongly on the Contemporary Jazz Charts, with Back to Your Heart (2016) and Love Inside (2018) reaching numbers one and two, respectively, while A Woman Like Me (2020) climbed to number five; Reasons arrived in September 2022.
Raised in Woodstock, New York, Webster began on cello before turning to singing during her studies at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City. After encountering pianist Keith Slattery in 2009, she launched a solo career that yielded an independently released self-titled album in 2013 and the follow-up You Change on Atlanta Records two years later.
Her third album, Back to Your Heart, appeared in 2016 and contained the single “Fool Me Once,” which ascended to number one on Billboard’s Smooth Jazz Songs chart. Love Inside, released in 2018, included appearances by trumpeter Rick Braun and guitarist Norman Brown. For A Woman Like Me she reunited with producer, keyboardist, and former husband Keith Slattery; the sessions also featured bassist Nathan East, drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, and percussionist Luis Conte. Issued in March 2020, the album reached number five on the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart. Webster returned with the single “I Didn’t Mean It,” featuring Brian Culbertson, in January 2022, then issued “Stay with Me,” spotlighting trumpeter Randy Brecker, that July; the full-length Reasons followed in September.
