Rhiannon Giddens Signs With WME

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Rhiannon Giddens. Photo: Karen Cox

Rhiannon Giddens has inked with WME for global representation in music.

Giddens is a Pulitzer Prize and Grammy-winning artist, composer, banjo player, fiddler and cultural advocate. A founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, she is widely recognized as one of the leading voices in American roots music. During her career, she has earned two Grammy Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Music for Omar, a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and more. Her work spans music, film, opera, literature and education while highlighting the African American roots of American music.

Giddens will release her seventh solo album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, on Sept. 18 via Nonesuch Records. Recorded live with longtime collaborators and co-produced by Dirk Powell, the album celebrates community, collaboration, and the shared traditions of American music.

Beyond recording and touring, Giddens recently served as music supervisor, consultant and contributed original music to Sinners. She also wrote new music for Ken Burns’ upcoming PBS documentary The American Revolution, released the book Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas with Kristina R. Gaddy, and stars in the upcoming film An Ode to Mary Jo alongside Ed Helms, Jason Isbell, Steve Earle, Regina Taylor and John Sayles.

She recently sold-out Carnegie Hall and played two sold-out shows at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is also launching American Tunes: Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing, a five-date concert series with Mavis Staples, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Hurray for the Riff Raff, with stops in Seattle, Bend, Bentonville, Asheville and The Caverns in Tennessee.

Giddens also recently launched the Biscuits & Banjos Foundation, which expands the mission of her festival through music education, instrument access, and programs celebrating the African diaspora’s influence on American culture.

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