Jalen Ngonda at Swedish American Hall

Jalen Ngonda played a sold-out show at The Swedish American Hall in San Francisco this September. You can tell his voice is more than a 70's soul knockoff in his recordings alone, but it's nothing like hearing him live 10 feet away. Not even one of my favorite musicians over the past 5 years, Aaron Frazer, who had the song at my wedding's first dance, could showcase live like Ngonda. I saw Frazer…