Current：Home > NewsThe Grammy nominee you need to hear: Esperanza Spalding -EverVision Finance
The Grammy nominee you need to hear: Esperanza Spalding
Charles Langston View
Date：2025-04-08 13:21:10
How do you bring the African Diaspora to the Grammys?
Esperanza Spalding and Milton Nascimento's contrasting tones make a perfect team on Milton + esperanza, a collection of covers, duets, and original songs that have earned the pair a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Today, Brittany and Esperanza get into the years-long intergenerational friendship behind the music, and the Brazilian influences on the album.
Support public media and receive ad-free listening & bonus. Join NPR+ today.
veryGood！ (1961)
Related
- Whoopi Goldberg is delightfully vile as Miss Hannigan in ‘Annie’ stage return
- Drake says he's stepping away from music to focus on health after new album release
- Terence Davies, filmmaker of the lyrical ‘Distant Voices, Still Lives,’ dies at the age of 77
- 'There is no tomorrow': Young Orioles know the deal as Rangers put them in 2-0 ALDS hole
- 2 killed, 3 injured in shooting at makeshift club in Houston
- Orioles couldn't muster comeback against Rangers in Game 1 of ALDS
- Jobs report shows payrolls grew by 336K jobs in September while unemployment held at 3.8%
- US raises the death toll to 9 of Americans killed in the weekend Hamas attacks on Israel
- Trump suggestion that Egypt, Jordan absorb Palestinians from Gaza draws rejections, confusion
- An Israeli airstrike kills 19 members of the same family in a southern Gaza refugee camp
Ranking
- Biden administration makes final diplomatic push for stability across a turbulent Mideast
- 'Not looking good': Bills' Matt Milano suffers knee injury in London against Jaguars
- From Coke floats to Cronuts, going viral can have a lasting effect on a small business
- Gates Foundation funding $40 million effort to help develop mRNA vaccines in Africa in coming years
- In ‘Nickel Boys,’ striving for a new way to see
- FBI warns of rising elder fraud crime rates as scammers steal billions in savings each year
- An Israeli airstrike kills 19 members of the same family in a southern Gaza refugee camp
- Videos of 'flash mob' thefts are everywhere, but are the incidents increasing?
Recommendation
Which apps offer encrypted messaging? How to switch and what to know after feds’ warning
FBI warns of rising elder fraud crime rates as scammers steal billions in savings each year
What does a change in House speaker mean for Ukraine aid?
Senior Taliban officials visit villages struck by earthquake that killed at least 2,000 people
Why Sean "Diddy" Combs Is Being Given a Laptop in Jail Amid Witness Intimidation Fears
Evacuations ordered as remnants of Typhoon Koinu hit southern China
Powerball jackpot reaches a staggering $1.4 billion. See winning numbers for Oct. 7.
EU Commission suspends ‘all payments immediately’ to the Palestinians following the Hamas attack