Candace Woodson

" The Midas Touch", " Trying To Be Perfect"

Candace Woodson Candace Woodson is the answer to those who long for nostalgic and soulful R&B and jazz music. Candace is a finalist for the 2024 Soultracks.com Readers Choice Awards, up for a gong as Best Female Artist. Candace is an Indie Soul Grammy winner (2019) and a UK Soul Chart Top 100 of 2021 recipient for the #1 song, “Midas Touch.”

Candace won two more awards – Song of The Year with “Trying to be Perfect” at the Pop Awards 2023 and Song of The Year at the Emerald Awards in Philadelphia (again for “Trying to be Perfect”).

Candace has also won Best International Artist with the Bright Star Awards and the Billboard Smooth Jazz Most Added winner (2019). She has been climbing the Billboard Independent charts with her recent release "Trying To Be Perfect" - a remix. “Trying to be Perfect” was a number single 1 on the UK Soul chart.

Candace won two more awards – Song of The Year with “Trying to be Perfect” at the Pop Awards 2023 and Song of The Year at the Emerald Awards in Philadelphia (again for “Trying to be Perfect”).

Candace's mission is to inspire and encourage others to achieve a life of balance that fulfills dreams through the power of music. Twenty-eight days after a successful surgery, Candace Woodson was back to business-as-usual performing at the wedding of one of John “Cougar” Mellencamp’s daughters. This is a testament to Candace Woodson’s lifelong passion for performing and a talent for resilience she calls “stick to it-ness.” In 2014, she wrote the song “Free,” a funky old school dance anthem that conveys hope and positivity in the wake of adversity. This is a message she conveys stemming from her own experiences.

“Free,” rose to #12 on the UK Soul Chart Top 30. This success laid the foundation for a number of other chart-topping singles, including “The Answer Is No,” a defiant female empowerment ballad which hit #1 on the UK Soul Chart Top 30 and has continued to receive airplay on Smooth Jazz Radio as well as other top stations. Woodson received Billboard’s “Most Added” designation and is a “Best International Artist” nominee. In 2022 Candace released a new album - "Perfect".

In 2025 the new single "Your Love", went straight into the top 5 of the UK Soul charts.