Esperanza Emily Spalding is an American Grammy Award–winning jazz bassist, singer, songwriter, and composer. She also founded the Songwrights Apothecary Lab to promote the healing power of music.
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Esperanza Spalding talks about inspirations in her musical style.
Bassist, vocalist, composer and bandleader Esperanza Spalding has won a Smithsonian Magazine American Ingenuity Award in the category of performing arts.
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.
Esperanza Spalding talks about her process in making music.
The jazz wunderkind’s latest project, Songwrights Apothecary Lab, explores how musicians can apply healing therapy to their work.
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.
The musician hopes to raise $300,000 by early June to support the project.
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.
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.”
Roseanna Vitro interviews the bassist, singer and bandleader about her musical development and influences.
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