Track 104 min read
Artist: Baden Powell & Vinicius de Moraes, Album: Os Afro-Sambas
A record from Bahia, a classical conductor and a choir of friends
1966BrazilSamba
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Nina Simone's love of Bach, and her protest at Carnegie Hall
- Artist
- Nina Simone
- Album
- Nina Simone in Concert
- Year
- 1964
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Jazz
As a child, Nina refused to play after her parents were moved out of their front-row seats. Two decades later, on the album Nina Simone in Concert, she took to the piano her anger at the people who still told Black Americans where they could sit.
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How Daft Punk turned childhood memories into Discovery
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