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Rhiannon Giddens | |
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.jpg) Giddens performing at Byron Bay Bluesfest in New South Wales, Australia, March 2016 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | February 21, 1977 Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2004–present |
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| Website | Official website  |
Rhiannon Giddens (born February 21, 1977) is an American musician known for her eclectic folk music. She is a founding member of the country, blues, and old-time music band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, where she was the lead singer, fiddle player, and banjo player.
Giddens is from Greensboro, North Carolina. In addition to her work with the Grammy-winning[1] Chocolate Drops, Giddens has released five solo albums: Tomorrow Is My Turn (2015) and Freedom Highway (2017); 2021's There Is No Other and They're Calling Me Home (both collaborations with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi); and You're the One (2023). She appears in the Smithsonian Folkways collection documenting Mike Seeger's final trip through Appalachia in 2009, Just Around The Bend: Survival and Revival in Southern Banjo Styles – Mike Seeger's Last Documentary (2019).[2] In 2014, she participated in the T Bone Burnett-produced project titled The New Basement Tapes along with several other musicians, which set a series of recently discovered Bob Dylan lyrics to newly composed music. The resulting album, Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes, was in the Billboard top 40. She worked on Mountain Hymn song for a popular video game Red Dead Redemption 2.[3]
In 2023, the opera Omar, co-written by Giddens and Michael Abels, won a Pulitzer Prize for Music.[4][5]
- ^ "Past Winners Search". Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-10-28.
- ^ "Just Around the Bend: Survival and Revival in Southern Banjo Sounds – Mike Seeger's Last Documentary". folkways.si.edu. Smithsonian Folkways. September 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ Various - The Music Of Red Dead Redemption II (Original Soundtrack), 2019, retrieved 2025-03-21
- ^ "2023 Pulitzer Prizes". Pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
- ^ "Rhiannon Giddens Announces Forthcoming Album on Heels of Pulitzer Prize News". variety.com. 2023-05-09. Retrieved 2023-05-09.