Crossroads Jazz e Altro in Emilia Romagna is an itinerant festival that takes place throughout the Emilia Romagna region, and is one of the major European initiatives in this field. The 2025 edition takes place from 1 March to 1 August, with more than 60 concerts.
The most recent entry in the cast of artists in residence for Crossroads is singer Karima.
After years spent cultivating her passion for black music and jazz, with ‘Canta Autori’ Karima returns to her roots, singing the music of the land where she was born and grown up. 
The new project is a homage to Italian music, which she has always loved but with which she is only now finding her own personal harmony. 
In this new selection of songs, Karima respects the melodies but adds those black music veins that are her distinctive trait, supported by the new arrangements by Piero Frassi, who has worked alongside Karima for 20 years now. Songs such as ‘Anna verrà’ and ‘Bella 'mbriana’ by Pino Daniele, ‘Il nostro concerto’ by Umberto Bindi, “Fortuna” by Mario Venuti, ‘Quando l'amore se ne va’ by Edoardo De Crescenzo... will be performed in the show.