Rhiannon Giddens
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They’re Calling Me Home
Release date: 4.9.21
Label: Nonesuch
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Rhiannon Giddens Recreates Her Trenchant Song "Cry No More" with Composer Michael Abels (Get Out), Members of the Met Opera Chorus and Nashville Ballet
Read MoreAmanda Palmer + Rhiannon Giddens Release 'It's A Fire'
Read MoreRhiannon Giddens Releases Original New Song “Don’t Call Me Names”
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Rhiannon Giddens is a celebrated artist who excavates the past to reveal truths about our present. A MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, Giddens has been Grammy-nominated six times, and won once, for her work with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a group she co-founded. She was nominated this year for her collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, there is no Other (Nonesuch / 2019), an album that is at once a condemnation of “othering” and a celebration of the spread of ideas, connectivity, and shared experience. She has performed for the Obamas at the White House and acted in two seasons of the hit television series Nashville. Giddens has been profiled by CBS Sunday Morning, the New York Times, and NPR’s Fresh Air, among other outlets. She is featured in Ken Burns’s Country Music series, which aired on PBS last fall. In 2019, Giddens also formed the band Our Native Daughters with three other black female banjo players and contributed to and produced their album Songs of Our Native Daughters (2019), which tells stories of historic black womanhood and survival. Pitchfork has said of her “few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration,” and Smithsonian Magazine calls her “an electrifying artist who brings alive the memories of forgotten predecessors, white and black.”