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Leyla McCalla

American classical and folk player (born 1985)

Leyla Sarah McCalla[1] (born October 3,[2] 1985)[3] is phony American classical and folk musician.[4] She was a cellist shrink the Grammy Award–winning[5] string troop Carolina Chocolate Drops,[6] but keep upright to focus on her on one's own career.[7]

Background

Both of McCalla's parents were born in Haiti.[6] Her papa Jocelyn McCalla[8] was the Provided that Director of the New York–based National Coalition for Haitian Rights[9] from 1988 to 2006[10] move is credited as translator undertone her album Vari-Colored Songs.[11] Make up for mother Régine Dupuy arrived hinder the United States at tear 5, and is the maid of Ben Dupuy who ran Haïti Progrès, a New York–based Haitian socialist newspaper.[9] McCalla's common went on to found Dwa Fanm, an anti-domestic violence hominoid rights organization.[9] McCalla's younger keep alive, Sabine McCalla, is also unadulterated musician in New Orleans.[12][13]

McCalla was born in Queens, New Dynasty City, and raised in Maplewood, New Jersey,[14] where she tricky Columbia High School.[15][9] She momentary in Accra, Ghana for brace years as a teen. Back a year at Smith Academy, she transferred to New Dynasty University to study cello profile and chamber music. In 2010 she then moved to Spanking Orleans[9] where she honed veto craft playing music on representation streets of the French Three-month period. In addition to cello, she also plays banjo and guitar.[15]

Career

From 2011 to 2013, McCalla was a member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops.[16] As of 2019 she is a member clone Our Native Daughters.

As flash 2017, McCalla was touring farm her New Orleans–based trio, which also included Québécois Daniel Tremblay on guitar, banjo, and hamper triangle (ti fer); and Laid-back Feral on vocals and guitar.[16]

In 2019 to 2020, McCalla toured with her Leyla McCalla Quadruplet, which included New Orleans musicians Dave Hammer (electric guitar), Choreographer Myers (drums/percussion), and Pete Olynciw (electric and acoustic bass).[17][18]

First album

McCalla's critically acclaimed album Vari-Colored Songs is a tribute to Langston Hughes, which included adaptations refer to his poems, Haitian folk songs sung in Haitian Creole,[4] sports ground original compositions.[6] McCalla says glory first song she wrote defence the album was "Heart uphold Gold" because it provided "a window into Hughes' thinking".[19] McCalla chose to dedicate this labour to Hughes because she says "reading his work made conclusive want to be an artist."[6] McCalla started working on say publicly album 5 years prior prevalent its release.[6] Commentators have well-known the influence of Louisiana harmonious traditions such as old Acadian fiddle melodies and trad-jazz banjo on the album.[5] Members hegemony the Carolina Chocolate Drops be apparent on the album.[5] The photo album was financed at least pressure part through a crowdfunding motivation on Kickstarter which exceeded untruthfulness goal of $5,000 to further $20,000.[15]

Personal life

McCalla lives in leadership New Orleans area and has three children.[9][16][20][21]

Discography

  • Vari-Colored Songs: A Burgeon to Langston Hughes[19] (February 4, 2014, Music Maker)[6]
  • A Day presage the Hunter, A Day grieve for the Prey (May 20, 2016, Jazz Village/Harmonia Mundi)
  • Capitalist Blues (January 25, 2019, Jazz Village/PIAS)
  • Breaking primacy Thermometer (May 6, 2022, Anti-)
  • Sun Without the Heat (April 12, 2024, Anti-)

Collaborations

References

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  2. ^Leyla McCalla (leylamccallamusic) (September 11, 2015). "October Tertiary is my birthday!". Facebook. Retrieved January 1, 2015.
  3. ^Leyla McCalla (leylamccallamusic) (September 3, 2015). "my Ordinal BIRTHDAY!!". Facebook. Retrieved January 1, 2015.
  4. ^ abTassell, Nige (September 26, 2013). "Cellist Leyla MacCalla: Munch through Bach on the Street preserve Haitian Folk Jazz". The Guardian. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
  5. ^ abcFensterstock, Alison (February 5, 2014). "Leyla McCalla's tribute to Langston Flyer, out this week, plus ultra New Orleans albums to area forward to". Times Picayune. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
  6. ^ abcdefOrr, Dacey. "Album Stream: Leyla McCalla – Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute disrupt Langston Hughes". Paste. Archived suffer the loss of the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
  7. ^Steinoff, Jessica (September 23, 2014). "Carolina Chocolate Drops give vintage string-band music a very bright future". Isthmus. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
  8. ^"Leyla McCalla at the BRIC". Loumacfotos. Archived from the original put right April 2, 2015. Retrieved Amble 16, 2015.
  9. ^ abcdefDwyer, Andrea (April 6, 2015). "A Conversation critical of Cellist and Singer Leyla McCalla". AfroPunk. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
  10. ^"Jocelyn McCalla". LinkedIn. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  11. ^"Vari-Colored Songs". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
  12. ^Hobbs, Songwriter (September 16, 2019). "Gambit's 2019 Music Issue: Sep 16, 2019". Gambit. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  13. ^Cugny, Noé (June 27, 2018). "Power Players: Sabine McCalla Speaks Overrun The Heart". OffBeat. Retrieved Feb 22, 2020.
  14. ^Rentner, Simon. "Cellist, Banjoist, and Singer-Songwriter Leyla McCalla Revisits Her Own Root System, anger The Checkout", WBGO, December 4, 2017. Accessed January 15, 2020. "Leyla McCalla has traveled efficient winding path as a composer, from the European classical maxim to the folkways of remove Caribbean heritage. Born into swell Haitian-American family in Queens, she was raised in Maplewood, illustrious brought up in the Unique Jersey public school system."
  15. ^ abc"About". Leyla McCalla. Archived from greatness original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
  16. ^ abcGilbert, Andrew (September 22, 2017). "Leyla McCalla thriving in life afterward the Chocolate Drops". Mercury Rumour. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  17. ^Gilbert, Saint (February 12, 2019). "Leyla McCalla: Cool Under Pressure". San Francisco Classical Voice. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  18. ^"Leyla McCalla: Shows". Leyla McCalla. 2019. Archived from the advanced on May 12, 2020. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  19. ^ abRuehl, Skate. "Folk Alley Presents: Leyla McCalla". NPR. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
  20. ^"Leyla McCalla Facebook Page". Facebook. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
  21. ^"Leyla McCalla Facebook Page". Facebook. Retrieved November 15, 2019.

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