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Krishna Das is on a journey to India to discover legendary spiritual teacher Neem Karoli Baba, through drug addiction and depression, to his eventual emergence as a world-famous Kirtan singer.
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Esperanza Spalding talks about her process in making music.
As always, women forge new pathways in sound; today, they also make waves under the surface of culture by confronting, in their music, the increased fluidity of “woman” itself.
Esperanza Spalding is a force of nature. A bass player and singer who rose to stardom when she became the first jazz performer to win a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2011. Spalding grew up a musical prodigy in Portland, Oregon, where she learned the violin at age five.
Esperanza Spalding talks about inspirations in her musical style.
Award-winning jazz musician Esperanza Spalding is live in the studios of The Takeaway at WNYC Radio to talk with Todd Zwillich about her new album, “Exposure.”
Bassist, vocalist, composer and bandleader Esperanza Spalding has won a Smithsonian Magazine American Ingenuity Award in the category of performing arts.
The musician hopes to raise $300,000 by early June to support the project.
People always bandy around ideas of how music is a healing force, but Esperanza Spalding is putting her money where her mouth is with ‘Songwrights Apothecary Lab’—which titles both her new album and affiliation of musicians and researchers.