Esperanza Spalding on the Suffering of Songwriting and Her Dream Collaboration with Milton Nascimento
From a lightning bolt moment watching cellist Yo-Yo Ma on Mister Rogers\u2019 Neighborhood as a child to becoming a 5-time Grammy winner, Esperana Spalding\u2019s journey has been driven by an innate love for music. But along the way, she\u2019s often felt misunderstood and misrepresented in the press.
Today, Esperanza sits with Guy to talk more about the forces that propelled her rise, her decision to livestream the 77-hour process of writing an album from start to finish in real time, and the lessons she learned about presence and love while collaborating with her musical hero, Milton Nascimento, on their new album, \u201cmilton + esperanza.\u201d
Get the new album here: https://esperanzaspalding.bandcamp.com/album/milton-esperanza
Links from the Show:
- Esperanza performing at the White House in 2009
- Esperanza\u2019s album Emily's D+Evolution
- Esperanza\u2019s album Radio Music Society
- Fall In, song by Esperanza Spalding
- Judas, song by Esperanza Spalding
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