Expecting Candice Hoyes

• 1 Zora's Moon 05:03
• 2 Expecting 05:52
• 3 Paradis 04:22
• 4 Making Love 03:55
• 5 Pink Clouds 03:54
• 6 Meant to Be (for Baldwin) 03:09
• 7 Notebook Age Eight (44,1 kHz) 00:29
• 8 Love Over Mind 05:17
• 9 Rain 04:20
• 10 Face Against The Window 03:34
• 11 Winnifred's Barrel 02:52
• 12 Tired (Waiting for the World) 04:01
• 13 Expecting Outro (Gratitude) (44,1 kHz) 00:30
• Total Runtime 47:18

Info for Expecting

Award-winning interdisciplinary musician and vocalist Candice Hoyes releases her debut solo album "Expecting", arriving August 28 via LaReserve Records, alongside new single Pink Clouds.

Expecting marks Hoyes’ first full-length solo venture, following work across orchestral performance, jazz, contemporary composition, visual art, and scholarship. Her credits include Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Wynton Marsalis, Philip Glass, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Moor Mother, and Chaka Khan.

"Writing this album was like painting a story for one listener at a time, constantly mixing new colors. I chose to illuminate active compassion in response to everyday cruelty and to radiate this intention as the throughline of the album."

Candice Hoyes

Candice Hoyes
is an award-winning artist “with the most eclectic and delicious voice ever,” (Jazz FM UK). Floating across the Diaspora, her “mesmerizing, moody” songs tell a long history that’s “surprising, layered, elemental, and deep,” (BOMB Magazine).

Born to Jamaican parents, she is a soprano, producer, songwriter, filmmaker, and archivist mutually steeped in exploring the untold stories of her heritage. She began composing for her voice and band after her start as an award-winning soprano (First Place, International Paul Robeson Opera Competition). Candice has collaborated with Chaka Khan, Jessye Norman, Moor Mother, Wynton Marsalis, and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Theaster Gates, Phillip Glass, Ricky Ian Gordon, Makaya McCraven, Lalah Hathaway, and Lin-Manuel Miranda. ​​

In 2024, she made her composer debut at Lincoln Center in the world premiere of Sadah Espii Proctor’s "adrift," the first augmented reality installation in the Social Sculptures Project, a series of public art exhibitions. Upcoming debuts in 2024-25 season include The Kennedy Center, Morgan Library and Museum, Pioneer Works curated by Moor Mother, Blacktronika Festival, Public Records, unerhört! Festival, Harlem Chamber Players, The Shed and the Center for Performance Research. Known for her "chill-inducing range" (Vogue), Candice is a vocalist for the new Chicago-based large ensemble Rotary Connection 222, music directed by Junius Paul and led by Charlene, Eibur and Chanté Stepney.

She is noted in Carnegie Hall's Timeline of African American Music because "her scholarship on such luminaries of African American cultural history represents a noticeable departure from the usual practice of isolating creativity and critical analysis, and the textures of her sound exemplify Afrofuturism as well." ​

Currently, she is a MAP Fund recipient. Candice has been awarded fellowships by NYSCA, Manhattan Arts grants, the Woodshed Network for Women in Jazz Fellowship, NYC Women's Fund and Harvard University's Fitzie Prize.

This album contains no booklet.