Santigold
Frank Ockenfels/Courtesy of the artist
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Frank Ockenfels/Courtesy of the artist
Santigold
Frank Ockenfels/Courtesy of the artist
February is Black Historical past Month — and every week, all month, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison is right here to speak a couple of totally different trailblazer and maverick of Black music.
These musicians took dangers and pushed boundaries. To date, we have talked about Solar Ra, Betty Davis and Sylvester. For the ultimate week, Morrison is taking a look at a recent artist who remains to be making music — and nonetheless discovering methods to make music that feels like nobody else: Santigold.
“The songs get higher and weirder as she goes on,” he says. “That ain’t at all times a straightforward factor to tug off, to develop and make higher music that is additionally extra ahead pondering, extra experimental.”
On this session, we take a tour by means of Santigold’s profession: how she began, how her music helped outline the early 2000s, and the way she continues to pioneer and encourage.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The net story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.
