Pamela Means, singer-songwriter and jazz musician, with “mad guitar-and-vocal skills” (Time Out New York) has toured throughout the US, Canada, Europe and Australia, winning awards, delighting audiences and impressing critics with her seven independent releases along the way. Currently, Means is preparing her eighth album, a solo acoustic live-in-the-studio recording, for national release.

“…insanely brilliant.” – Press Herald, Portland ME

“Pamela Means…heir to Nina Simone’s legacy?” – Goldenrod Distribution

“With her snappy delivery of lounge classics…Means takes her rightful place among contemporary superstar jazz vocalists
such as Cassandra Wilson and Norah Jones.” – Curve Magazine
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“‘Amsterdam,’ [by Pamela Means is] a lovely slice of cafe jazz, complete with brushed drums, conjuring up a lazy day of
demitasse by the canal and a ramble through the old port city.” – Dave Luhrssen, Shepherd Express, Milwaukee WI​

“Pamela Means Jazz Project, Vol. I –  Top Ten Albums of 2007.” – Muruch Entertainment Blog

“Means is, quite simply, superb…Her guitar playing is very tasty indeed, her voice…tender, and
her version of Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” is heart-rending.” – HiFi Magazine, London UK

With virtuosic musicianship, razor wit and a disarming sense of humor, Pamela Means is building a vibrant and remarkable career, delighting audiences from Anchorage to Amsterdam to Sydney to Stockholm to Honolulu and New York. Thrilled audience members often exclaim they’ve ‘never seen anyone play guitar like Pamela Means!’ Plus, Ani DiFranco said to Pamela Means, “you groove so deep, so deep I can’t get out. And I wouldn’t want to.”