Catherine Lima returns to Googlies jazz club on Thursday March 26, and if you’ve seen her before, you already know to book fast.

Born in Chiswick, shaped by Lancashire, the Midlands and Madrid, Lima brings a singer’s lifetime of wandering to every song she touches. On the London jazz circuit since 2001, she has the hard-won ease of someone who genuinely loves what she does, and it shows in every phrase.
Her voice does remarkable things. It can hold a room in silence or set it alight, moving from sultry to joyous inside a single standard. Her influences run deep, from the cool intelligence of Anita O’Day to the emotional directness of Peggy Lee, but what you hear on the night is unmistakably her own. She scats with confidence, phrases with precision, and never loses the emotional thread.
This is jazz singing at its most alive: witty, warm, and completely in the moment.