Esperanza Spalding citations

Esperanza Emily Spalding, née le 18 octobre 1984 à Portland , est une contrebassiste, bassiste, arrangeuse, compositrice, chanteuse, universitaire et actrice américaine de jazz.

Lauréate de quatre Grammy Awards, elle est la première artiste de jazz à recevoir le Grammy Award du meilleur nouvel artiste. Elle a notamment été invitée par Barack Obama à jouer lors de la cérémonie de remise du Prix Nobel de la paix. Elle est également la plus jeune enseignante à avoir été embauchée par le Berklee College of Music. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. octobre 1984
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“Alchemy and magic are about how mundane, benign, and abundant materials can have an effect that is greater than the sum of their parts. To me, creativity is alchemy.”

On giving her music a magical quality in “Esperanza Spalding Wants to Connect You to Your Body” https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/09/esperanza-spalding-12-little-spells-interview in Vanity Fair (2018 Sep 25)

“I want to have a beneficial effect on your physiology, but it’s not my business what happens after that…It’s my gift to you.”

On the healing effects that she hopes her music provides in “Esperanza Spalding Wants to Connect You to Your Body” https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/09/esperanza-spalding-12-little-spells-interview in Vanity Fair (2018 Sep 25)

“…There's no secret, no shortcut. Once you accept that being a writer or a creator is just really hard and takes a lot of hours of slogging through crappy first drafts, you just keep producing, and then you turn around and it's done. That's the magic.”

On becoming a writer in “Esperanza Spalding Talks Recording an Album in 77 Hours, Sexism in Music & Nicki Minaj” https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7973640/esperanza-spalding-77-hours-livestream-album-interview in Billboard (2017 Sep 22)

“…There’s two sides of the coin: One where people don't expect you to do anything and won't let you do anything because they think you don't know how, and then the other side is when you're fucking up but they won't tell you because you're a girl. Then you don’t learn.”

On how recording in the studio can be a double-edged sword in “Esperanza Spalding: Insubordinate by Nature” https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/9830-esperanza-spalding-insubordinate-by-nature/ in Pitchfork (2016 Mar 8)

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