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The Difference Between Music and Kirtan - Sikhnet.Com

2017

There is a big difference between a musical performance and kirtan. A performance is to display how good you are at something. In kirtan you don't have to prove anything, you have to get connected. That is the puropose of kirtan; to get connected yourself, and to help others get connected as well.

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Esperanza Spalding, Academy Class of 2014

Esperanza Spalding talks about her process in making music.

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Grammy Award-Winner Esperanza Spalding Is Pushing the Boundaries of Music | Amanpour and Company

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.

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Need To Know - Esperanza Spalding by WXXI

Esperanza Spalding talks about inspirations in her musical style.

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Esperanza Spalding Interview with Todd Zwillich

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.”

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Esperanza Spalding American Ingenuity Award 2012

Bassist, vocalist, composer and bandleader Esperanza Spalding has won a Smithsonian Magazine American Ingenuity Award in the category of performing arts.

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