Rhiannon Giddens

Rhiannon Giddens has made a singular, iconic career out of stretching her brand of folk music into just about every field imaginable. A two-time GRAMMY Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning singer and instrumentalist, MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient, and composer, Giddens has centered her work around lifting up people whose contributions to American musical history have previously been overlooked or erased. 

As Pitchfork once said, “few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration”—a journey that has led to NPR naming her one of its 25 Most Influential Women Musicians of the 21st Century and to American Songwriter calling her “one of the most important musical minds currently walking the planet.”