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Rhiannon Giddens has released five solo albums since 2015. Before that, she was a member of the Grammy-winning band, the Carolina Chocolate Drops. She is now also the artistic director of the Silkroad Ensemble, the musical supergroup that Yo-Yo Ma founded.

Rhiannon Giddens is one of those people where I feel like they have to start inventing new awards, because she\u2019s already won all of them. She\u2019s got multiple Grammys, she won the Pulitzer Prize for an opera she co-wrote called Omar, she\u2019s a MacArthur Genius, and the new Beyonce song \u201cTexas Hold \u2018Em,\u201d the one that features the banjo? That\u2019s Rhiannon Giddens playing the banjo. (I guess that\u2019s not technically an award, but it feels like one to me.)

In 2023, Rhiannon released an album called You\u2019re The One, and I talked to her about the song she wrote called "You Louisiana Man," which was nominated for a Grammy for Best American Roots Performance.

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