Rhiannon Giddens

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 Chocolate Drops, Giddens has released five solo albums: Tomorrow Is My Turn (2015) and Freedom Highway (2017), 2019; and 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). 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 a top-40 Billboard album. She worked on Mountain Hymn song for a popular video game Red Dead Redemption 2. In 2023, the opera Omar, co-written by Giddens and Michael Abels, won a Pulitzer Prize for Music.

American Revolution, a Film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt. Music From the PBS Documentary - 2025-11-07T00:00:00.000000Z

Sinners (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 2025-04-18T00:00:00.000000Z

What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow - 2025-04-18T00:00:00.000000Z

The Music Of Nashville: Season 5 (Original Soundtrack) - 2024-12-06T00:00:00.000000Z

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