Ladies First: Blessing Jolie

Blessing Jolie is the kind of artist who makes growing up feel worth documenting — not because she has all the answers, but because she is unafraid to sit with the questions.

The Nigerian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist raised in Katy, Texas, has built her music around the messy, funny, painful and often confusing process of figuring out who you are in your 20s. Her songs — including those on debut album 20nothing — are deeply personal without feeling distant and turn experiences with love, disappointment, confidence, identity and growing pains into stories listeners can recognize as their own.