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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 a native of Greensboro, North Carolina.
Formed in November 2005, following the members' attendance at the first Black Banjo Gathering, held in Boone, North Carolina, in April 2005, the group grew out of the success of Sankofa Strings, an ensemble that featured Dom Flemons on bones, jug, guitar, and four-string banjo, Rhiannon Giddens on banjo and fiddle and Súle Greg Wilson on bodhrán, brushes, washboard, bones, tambourine, banjo ...
Genuine Negro Jig is the third studio album of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an African-American string band.Its label debut was released on February 16, 2010, while its vinyl version, which included the album on 140-gram vinyl and CD, was released on July 13. [5]
Giddens’ career after the Carolina Chocolate Drops has included multiple solo albums, most recently 2023’s doubly Grammy-nominated “You’re the One,” as well as projects in collaboration ...
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Carolina Chocolate Drops chronology; Genuine Negro Jig (2010) Leaving Eden ... Rhiannon Giddens – fiddle, 5-strings gourd banjo, 5 string banjo, 5-string cello banjo;
Freedom Highway is the second solo studio album of Folk/Americana musician and Carolina Chocolate Drops front woman Rhiannon Giddens. It was released via Nonesuch Records on February 24, 2017. [13] Freedom Highway was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2017 Americana Music Honors & Awards.
There Is No Other is a collaborative studio album by American singer-songwriter and Carolina Chocolate Drops vocalist Rhiannon Giddens, and Italian jazz musician Francesco Turrisi. The album was produced by Joe Henry and was released on May 3, 2019 by Nonesuch Records. [1] [2]