Reimagining America
I’m a performer, and in hard times, this job gets harder. I make music when the nation mourns, and my music can sound like hope.
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Join NOW!I’m a performer, and in hard times, this job gets harder. I make music when the nation mourns, and my music can sound like hope.
...moreI felt urgently that it was the moment to tell the story of what I’ve learned about American music—or maybe about being an American.
...moreI had to look back at the late nights when her voice has sung me out of sadness to sleep, back to those Saturday afternoons of my childhood, and ask myself what I had learned from her, as a musician and a woman.
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