Lana Magdalinsky Makes Music Itself the Subject of The Song, Her First Original Single
New York Singer Folds Pop, Soul and Jazz Into a Debut Carried by Her Voice
The Song, released on 8 August 2026, is the first original single from Lana Magdalinsky. Its subject is music itself, treated as something personal that lasts. The New York singer builds it from pop, soul and jazz. Her voice sits at the centre, and everything else works for the song.
Lana Magdalinsky’s music is in the playlist below, beside the quiet storm and pop R&B records we return to, and the rest of our coverage sits on Lana Magdalinsky’s artist profile. The Song came to BlackSounds.News through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news titles. Press play, then read on for the lineage behind it.
Lana Magdalinsky and the Long Line of Singers Who Carried Jazz and Soul Into Pop
Pop has borrowed from jazz and soul singers for as long as it has had singers worth borrowing from. First, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan showed what patient phrasing could do to a standard. Then the quiet storm records of the 1980s carried that patience onto the radio. Since then, every decade has produced vocalists who learn on old songs before they write new ones.
The current turn of that wheel is easy to date. In 2023 the Bronx-born jazz singer Samara Joy won Best New Artist at the Grammys. A year later, Laufey took Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Bewitched. Both found young audiences for a language most pop had left behind. Both also treated the standards as a foundation to build on.
Lana Magdalinsky belongs to that current. Her official YouTube channel mixes short performance clips with a reading of La Foule, which Édith Piaf recorded in 1957. What is more, the clips have kept coming since her own single went out.
The Song Puts Lana Magdalinsky’s Own Writing Beside the Piaf and Jazz Repertoire on Her Channel
The Song runs a little over three and a half minutes. So far, it is the only track on her Spotify profile. That makes it an unusually clean introduction. As a result, there is no back catalogue to read it against, just the channel clips and the record.
Her channel credits the original music to Lana Magdalinsky and Misha Filman, working out of New York. This single is the first of those originals to reach the streaming services. Three traditions meet in it. Pop gives it the length and the focus of a radio single. Soul, meanwhile, gives it the conviction that a singer can carry the whole meaning of a song. Finally, jazz brings the repertoire she already performs on camera.
The theme connects the record to that repertoire. A singer who posts a 1957 song in 2026 has already shown what she means by music that lasts. That is exactly the subject of her first original. Standards singers have always worked this way, keeping old material alive because it still says something.
She is also developing her next original release. So The Song reads as the first page of a larger project, not a one-off.
The Records That Explain Who Lana Magdalinsky’s The Song Is For, From Sade to Norah Jones
Three records explain who The Song is for. Listeners who keep Sade‘s Diamond Life close already know the late-night end of pop this single lives in. The band built that 1984 debut around Sade Adu’s voice. It folded jazz and soul into pop so smoothly that it won Best British Album at the 1985 BRIT Awards. Since then, the quiet storm format has been home to that kind of record.
Norah Jones is the New York comparison. She came up through the city’s small rooms before Come Away With Me arrived on Blue Note in 2002. The album then won Album of the Year at the 2003 Grammys. It was a jazz label’s record that worked as a pop album because the songs led. Similarly, Lana Magdalinsky is building from the same city and on the same idea. For her, too, jazz is a vocabulary inside songs.
Amy Winehouse completes the picture. Before Frank in 2003 she had absorbed Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington. That grounding in other people’s songs runs all through her own writing. Likewise, the Piaf clip on Lana Magdalinsky’s channel points to a similar grounding. The Song is the first original to come out of it. So anyone who moves between a soul playlist and a jazz vocal album should give it a second play.
From the BlackSounds.News curator team: “Soul and jazz singing has always travelled further than the labels attached to it. The Song is a reminder that the line still runs through independent pop in New York. We would rather hear a debut that knows where it comes from, and this one plainly does.”
Follow Lana Magdalinsky on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and Instagram as Her Next Release Takes Shape
Hear the full single on Apple Music or in the player at the top of this page. Then follow Lana Magdalinsky on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and Instagram for clips and release news.
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