Nikki Yanofsky

It’s hard to draw a bead on Nikki Yanofsky, a highly touted young Canadian singer who’s being groomed to make Ella Fitzgerald’s legacy appealing to tweens. One minute she’s swinging with a confidence beyond her years; the next, she’s crooning over bombastic orchestrations that fit a PBS pledge-drive definition of uplifting. Still, her rise has been just shy of meteoric; here's a swell way to catch up.