New Orleans artist Jada Di’Larosa releases her new album, To Love Is To Perform, out today, April 17, 2026, on all digital platforms — independently released and entirely on her own terms. Blending alternative, indie, and nu-jazz across a collection of songs performed on piano, violin, and voice, it is a record that carries the atmosphere of the city it was born in: smoky, cinematic, and alive with something that refuses to be rushed.
Di’Larosa lives along Bayou St. John, and the album sounds like it. Quiet water. Late hours. Red wine and reflection. By night she works as a professional showgirl — costumes, lights, the full glamour of New Orleans stage life — but the music she makes in her quieter hours belongs to an entirely different register. Reclusive where her stage persona is bright, introspective where performance is extroversion, To Love Is To Perform holds the tension between those two worlds without trying to resolve it.
In her own words, the album is “a collection of what sounds to be just demos that have been tucked away collecting dust over the past year or two. An imperfect, small insight into my strange, uniquely glamorous yet reclusive life. A diary of a New Orleans girl who sits along her quiet bayou drinking red wine and dreaming while looking at the reflections that pass through the water, just waiting in the wings of the moment.”
That quality — of something intimate and unfinished, of music that was never meant to perform for anyone — is precisely what makes it so compelling. These songs carry subtlety and hold space for silence in a way that feels rare. Di’Larosa’s voice and cadence are entirely her own: unhurried, hypnotic, and impossible to place within a single genre or tradition. Universal in theme — love, loss, the ever-present tension of being alive — but deeply singular in delivery.
The album’s standout track “Costume” is available to listen to now, and it captures everything the project is reaching for: the push and pull between the self that performs and the self that watches from the wings, between glamour and solitude, between what is shown and what is felt.
To Love Is To Perform is a stunning embodiment of resilience and an unbridled passion for life — made by an artist who has found her expression completely, and invites anyone still searching to listen closely.