Sara Aldén

Grammy-winning jazz singer with a focus on strong jazz that touches!

With full force, jazz singer Sara Aldén has broken through on the Swedish jazz scene. With courage and melodies, she creates jazz that shakes things up. With her acclaimed debut album There Is No Future She won a Grammis in 2025 in the Jazz of the Year category and was also named Vocal Jazz of the Year in 2024 by Lira Music Magazine.

With full focus and care for every note, Sara Aldén and her trio breathe life into iconic jazz standards, while building bridges into the jazz of the future through Sara's own compositions. With roots in Swedish folk music, she approaches American jazz classics and makes them her own - with a voice and feeling that both honors tradition and looks to the future. Together with her trio, Sara creates a completely unique, well-crafted space in jazz, where she goes to the core of each song's expression as she explores the American standard repertoire.

With musical influences such as fellow musician Lina Nyberg, vocalist Ellen Andersson and pianist Tigran Hamasyan, Sara paints with broad brushstrokes what jazz sounds like today. With roots in Swedish folk tones, she takes on American jazz classics and makes them her own – with a new timbre and tone, with an intensity and core that is felt in life and death.

“More, more, more, I exclaim. Now, right now! I have heard a great Swedish jazz singer – a new jazz star – is being born.”
— Bengt Eriksson, LIRA Music Magazine

Sara has previously played with musicians such as Anders Jormin, Malin Wättring, Martin Sjöstedt and Lina Nyberg. She has worked as a singer at Gothenburg City Theatre during the production of The Idle GirlsSara has received the Fredrika Bremer scholarship and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music's local scholarships.