Sundas Naqvi: Moving Cities Does Not Mean Leaving Your Sound Behind
Chicago, Illinois, 21st October 2026, ZEX PR WIRE, Chicago jazz and folk vocalist Sundas Naqvi shares the lesson she learned when she moved her music from southern England to the American Midwest, and what she now tells other musicians who relocate.
Leaving One Sound for Another
Sundas Naqvi grew up in southern England, singing in school choirs and small community concerts before she found jazz and folk music at university. That sound, built around British choir traditions and acoustic folk, was the only musical language she knew.
In her late twenties, she moved to Chicago. The city had its own musical history, built on blues, jazz clubs, and a folk scene that worked differently than anything she had performed in before. She had to figure out where her voice fit inside it.
“I thought I was...
