Dzirae Gold believes music is what makes life worth living for her. The Denver-based artist primarily writes soul music, being influenced by the styles of Norah Jones and John Legend that make a listener feel “held.” But she has a little jazz, funk and Motown in there, too.
“It’s just a fusion of all of my passions,” she said. “Genre is so hard. As a small-time artist, it feels like a box.”
She’s played some local venues since 2020, but she wasn’t expecting the call in late February to play at a venue like City Park Jazz.
“It was just like the movies where, you know, you get the big call and you have to put it on mute to scream and shake and jump around,” she said. “This has been a dream that I thought for a long time might be unattainable.”…