Downloadable Press Kit
Information to help you promote your Event, Festival or Concert including Gwen’s bio and promotional printables.
As Grady Harp writes on Amazon Music: “Not only does Gwen Hughes have an exceptional voice by anybody’s standards, but she surpasses that magnificent gift with the manner in which she makes her terrific songs communicate.” Gwen has produced music with a diverse set of artists, from John Driskell Hopkins (The Zac Brown Band) to Khari Cabral Simmons (India.Arie) to Kabir Sehgal (multiple Grammy winner, most recently in 2025 for the Dalai Lama’s “Meditations.)
“I love to write songs,” says Gwen, “but my favorite challenge is taking a song everyone knows one way and presenting it another way, deconstructing and rebuilding it.” Her newest releases, the Jazz Hymn projects, showcase this desire to reinvent classic church hymns in the jazz framework. The hymns become bossa novas ,“This is My Father’s World” (In the Garden: Jazz Hymns for Easter); uptempo swing, “Now Thank We All Our God” (We Gather Together: Jazz Hymns for Thanksgiving) and even a surprising vocal-upright bass duet on “Doxology” (also Thanksgiving).
The final installment of the Jazz Hymns collection, The First Noel: Jazz Hymns for Christmas, features the classic Thad Jones composition, “A Child Is Born,” recorded in Nashville with The War and Treaty’s guitarist, Max Brown.
“We made a film about the “why hymns?,” because they aren’t the first thing that comes to mind for a jazz project,” smiles Gwen. Her show, JAZZ OF THE SOUL, folds a few hymns into a broader set list highlighting the “joyful” side of jazz, soul and gospel music. As she says, “No preaching. Just music to make you feel good.”
Gwen Hughes has toured 15 countries all over the world, from Paris to Nairobi. The former Ambassador to Slovenia, Joseph Mussomeli, proclaims: “As a performer and a person, Gwen is a delight, and the music that pours from her band is stirring and refreshing.” The US State Department sponsored two tours of the band through Eastern Europe.
As an actor, Gwen can be seen in Donald Glover’s “Atlanta,” as well as appearances that include “Hightown” (Netflix), “Tulsa King” (Paramount+), and “The Final Broadcast” (Amazon Prime), numerous Tyler Perry and independent projects.
Gwen was cast in the Alliance Theatre production of Stephen King and John Mellencamp’s Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, with music production by T-Bone Burnette. The show subsequently toured nationally for 2 years.
Offstage, Gwen was a 10-year Board Governor with The Recording Academy, a Johnny Mercer “Artist in Residence” with the GA Music Hall of Fame and instructor for The Otis Redding teaching students of all ages in the US, Morocco, Kenya, Slovenia, and France.
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Free Music Downloads
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From the Album “In The Garden”
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This Is My Fathers World
From the Album “Native Land”
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The Other Side Of Lonely
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Videos
IN THE NEWS
The Jazz Forum: Explorations
David Daniels – WRFG 89.3
Ride The Vibe
Host Michael Litten, welcomes the highly acclaimed recording and performing artist Gwen Hughes to Ride the Vibe where she shares a number of her recordings released over the past two decades.
She also shares insights gleaned from decades of performance, recording, songwriting, and life with treasured friends. She also performs one of her songs live in the Sandbox Studio South.
Shoutout Atlanta
Meet Gwen Hughes | Musician and Actor
We had the good fortune of connecting with Gwen Hughes and we’ve shared our conversation below.
Hi Gwen, we’d love to hear about how you approach risk and risk-taking. Click for more PDF
Podcasts: Belinda Skelton’s Atlanta Living
The Good Gracious Show
WKCD Productions Presents
Behind The Shadow, Episode 5 featuring Gwen Hughes, Joey Stuckey (joeystuckey.com) sits down with Gwen at Shadow Sound Studio (shadowsoundstudio.com) in Macon, Georgia.
“Gwen Hughes is sweet in both tone and delivery on this cheerful collection of material mostly from her own pen…this lady is versatile and convincing in every mood. – George Harris”
Closer Look: Cultural Appropriation In Music And Diversity In The Workplace
WCLK DJ Jamal Ahmad, NPR Music hip hop journalist Rodney Carmichael, Georgia Tech Professor of Black Media Studies Dr. Joycelyn Wilson and Atlanta-based jazz singer Gwen Hughes on today’s “Closer Look.” Morgan Noelle Smith/NPR; WABE Staff; Courtesy of Lenna Davis; WABE Staff
See the 5 star reviews on Amazon” for NATIVE LAND!”
“Not only does Gwen Hughes have an exceptional voice by anybody’s standards, but she surpasses that magnificent gift with the manner in which she makes her terrific songs communicate. This is one BIG success of a collection – intimate, big sound with multiple voices and superb instrumentalists. A Triumph!” — Grady Harp
Interviews:
Closer Look Chaka Khan Olympic Athletes And More
City Lights: Salman Rushdie; Johnny Mercer And More
Representing The Grammy Museum and The Recording Acadamy: Presenting Grammy certificate to 2016 Music Educator of the Year Nominee, Nicole Thompson (Taylor Road Middle School, Johns Creek, GA)
Closer Look Chaka Khan Olympic Athletes and More
Featured on Marietta Stories Podcast, July 11, 2021
