Not Every Singer Is Here to Start the Party
Jazz chanteuse Risa Branch on animal-rights activism, switching genres, and the healing power of music
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8 min readNov 3, 2019
“I don’t know any jazz singers apart from you,” I tell Risa Branch as we peruse the dinner menu at Farmacy Kitchen, a pop-up vegan restaurant in SoHo. “You’re a kind of time traveler.” She may look like a 21st-century…