Rhiannon Giddens

Date of Birth:

21-Feb-1977

Nationality:

United States

Profession:

Musician

Personally and as a member of the Carolinaina Chocolate Drops, Rhiannon Giddens explored the depths of traditional music, focusing on what ancient songs and forms are still like in today's world. Giddens' works as the music of note and expansion of a well-known folk song. Her beauty made two albums at Nonesuch's Carolina Carolina Chocolate Drops in early 2010 seem shocking and new, but soon after Leaving Eden's release in 2012, Giddens went it alone. Tomorrow Is My Turn, her solo album in 2015, found Giddens singing the values of the 20th century, which was the first idea of how fun her work alone would be. In short, he released Freedom Highway - a 2017 album featuring original songs - and There Is No Other, a collaboration in 2019 with Francesco Turrisi that made her sound artistic: there is no such thing as "other" music, it is a place where all cultures are united .

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At some point you have to take responsibility for who you are and where you are and being able to listen to other points of view, whichever side of the tracks you're on.

Each song has its own way that it likes to be done, but it can be more than one way. If you tap into it, you can feel it.

Every song has a heart, and I just go for that.

I like Queen Latifah.

I'm still black in the eyes of America.

We have to talk about the negativity, but we have to enjoy the beauty of what this country, culturally, has done.

It's not about me, it's about the music. I don't do this because I want to be a star. I don't do this because I want to make a lot of money.

What's really interesting to me is to have a connection to what was going on in the past, but to make it a living thing.

The question is not how do we get diversity into bluegrass, but how do we get diversity back into bluegrass?

Nobody can know what their legacy is going to be, you know?