{"id":384408,"date":"2026-01-02T23:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/384408\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T23:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:26:08","slug":"jill-scott-announces-first-album-in-11-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/384408\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Scott Announces First Album in 11 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

After starring in everything from TV\u2019s First Wives Club to the RZA-directed film Love Beats Rhyme, actress and singer Jill Scott<\/a> is making her long-awaited return to music with To Whom This May Concern, her first album since 2015\u2019s Woman<\/a>. You can hear the lead single \u201cBeautiful People\u201d and see the gorgeous cover by visual artist Marcellus below.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinally my new album entitled TO WHOM THIS MAY CONCERN drops Feb. 13th!!!!\u201d Scott wrote<\/a> on Instagram. \u201cPLEASE PLEASE PLEASE and THANK YOU for your patience and your listening ears.\u201d In a separate post about her collaborators, Scott noted<\/a> that \u201cCreating takes a village. I\u2019m sharing my beautiful people most literally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott first broke through as a spoken-word artist in the late \u201890s before getting recruited by Ahmir \u201cQuestlove\u201d Thompson to contribute vocals to his nascent Soulquarians collective. Scott\u2019s first album, 2000\u2019s Who Is Jill Scott?: Words and Sounds, Vol. 1<\/a>, was nominated for Best R&B Album at the 2001 Grammy Awards. She spent 2023 on the road for a rescheduled Words and Sounds anniversary tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To Whom This May Concern will include features from Ab-Soul, J.I.D., Tierra Whack, and Too $hort, along with production by Om’Mas Keith, DJ Premier, Trombone Shorty, among others.<\/p>\n

Read the Sunday Review of Who Is Jill Scott?: Words and Sounds, Vol. 1<\/a><\/p>\n

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