Dida Pelled seems like she could steal your girlfriend in a New York minute. A Brooklyn-based jazz guitarist, singer and songwriter with a storyteller’s instinct and a mischievous sense of genre, Pelled has every audience in the palm of her hand. Whether delivering a jazz standard, a scorched blues, or an original that swerves somewhere unexpected, her gift is unmistakable. In 2026, the Year of the Fire Horse, in full leather chaps, Dida rolls out her blues-drenched album I Wish You Would. With this project, she sharpens the qualities that have always made her distinctive—expansive musicality, narrative bite, and a refusal to sand down the edges. This long-awaited album is Dida’s grand coming-out with her first love–the blues.