Excellent acoustic and jazzy folk-soul? It does exist!  Lianne La Havas is a brand new, extremely charming British songstress. After the latest edition of the Eurosonic festival she was placed i...

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Excellent acoustic and jazzy folk-soul? It does exist!

 
Lianne La Havas is a brand new, extremely charming British songstress. After the latest edition of the Eurosonic festival she was placed in De Morgen's 'Ten Toppers' along with this praise: 'There are no superlatives spared for Lianne La Havas in the UK, a black songstress with a crystal clear voice who has had a fine future predicted since her visit to Jools Holland.' So now she's taking tours with Bon Iver or Ben Howard.
Apparently only 2 EPs out, or wait, 3 EPs including an extremely recent 'Live in L.A.' But even so, we hear songs that produce a tingling sensation each time and that should indeed be able to win over fans of Dido or Corinne Bailey Rae. So if India.Arie isn't going to make to to the AB anyway then we can now look forward to Lianne La Havas. 
Does she have fine songs? Oh yes! Just ask Willy Mason who so vibrantly sings the response in No Room For Doubt:

But she can also go it alone, on high heels and on the street:

And, of course, entirely solo and seemingly fragile on TV: