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A classically-trained cellist, multi-instrumentalist, and accomplished folk musician, Leyla McCalla initially performed as a member of the Caroline Chocolate Drops before leaving the group to pursue a solo career. She was born to Haitian parents in Queens, New York, on October 3, 1985. Although largely praised in nearby Maplewood, New Jersey, she spent a pair of years in Ghana as a teenager. She later returned to America, where she studied music at Smith College and New York University before relocating to New Orleans in 2010. She joined Carolina Chocolate Drops one year later an...