NEW YORK—Naming your daughter Jazzmeia is a bit like Babe Ruth pointing to the outfield fence before hitting a home run. After all, how could parents know their daughter would even like jazz, much less perform it? In this case, the name was chosen by her grandmother, a jazz-loving pianist. And, like the Sultan of Swat, the Horn family hit a home run.
Horn started singing at age 3 and went on to win two prestigious competitions: the Sarah Vaughan International Competition in 2013 and the Thelonious Monk International Competition in 2015. Her first album, “A Social Call” (on Concord’s Prestige label) was nominated for a Grammy Award.
