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Esperanza Spalding

Jazz
Soul music
Jazz pop
If the music world was shocked when Esperanza Spalding became the first jazz act to win the Best New Artist award at the 2011 Grammys, it was nothing to the shock Esperanza herself felt. Her unusual Christian name is the Spanish word for "hope" reflecting a diverse ethnic background - part-Welsh, part-Hispanic, part-native American - and she grew up in a ghetto raised by her single parent mother. Naturally gifted, however, Spalding taught herself to play violin by the time she was five, going on to spend most of her childhood playing with the Chamber Music Society of Oregon. Draw...
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formwela 3
formwela 3Esperanza Spalding

7:03

Why We Speak
Why We SpeakRobert Glasper, Q-Tip and Esperanza Spalding

Black Radio III

6:19

Black Gold
Black GoldEsperanza Spalding, Algebra Blessett and Lionel Loueke

Radio Music Society

5:16

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Have Yourself A Merry Little ChristmasJohn Legend and Esperanza Spalding

A Legendary Christmas

3:43

You Have To Dance
You Have To DanceEsperanza Spalding

12 Little Spells

Precious
PreciousEsperanza Spalding and Leo Genovese

Esperanza

4:24

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