Rhiannon Giddens shows her saucy side in new album
Most people familiar with singer Rhiannon Giddens know her scholarly side.
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Most people familiar with singer Rhiannon Giddens know her scholarly side.
Rhiannon Giddens is as much a scholar as a musician. Yet Giddens is now showing a different side — even a saucy side — with an accessible new album with
Most people familiar with singer Rhiannon Giddens know her scholarly side. She won a MacArthur “genius grant” for her work making sure the contributions of Black Americans aren’t ignored in the history of folk and country music. Earlier this year, she earned a Pulitzer Prize for co-writing the opera “Omar,” about an enslaved Muslim man…
NEW YORK — Most people familiar with singer Rhiannon Giddens know her scholarly side.
Most people familiar with singer Rhiannon Giddens know her scholarly side. Earlier this year, she earned a Pulitzer Prize for co-writing the opera “Omar," about an enslaved Muslim man who lived in Charleston, South Carolina. The disc is the most broadly inviting work of Giddens' career, a potent stew of folk, country, rock, soul and Cajun steered by producer Jack Splash, who has worked with Alicia Keys, Valerie June, Solange Knowles and Kendrick Lamar.