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Rhiannon Giddens

Rhiannon Giddens (born February 21, 1977) is an American musician known for her eclectic folk music. She is a founding member of the country, blues, and old-time music band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, where she was the lead singer, fiddle player, and banjo player.

Giddens is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina. In addition to her work with the Grammy-winning Chocolate Drops, Giddens has released five solo albums: ''Tomorrow Is My Turn'' (2015) and ''Freedom Highway'' (2017), 2019 and 2021's ''There Is No Other'' and ''They're Calling Me Home'' (both collaborations with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi), and ''You're the One'' (2023). She appears in the Smithsonian Folkways collection documenting Mike Seeger's final trip through Appalachia in 2009, ''Just Around The Bend: Survival and Revival in Southern Banjo Styles – Mike Seeger’s Last Documentary'' (2019). In 2014, she participated in the T Bone Burnett-produced project titled The New Basement Tapes along with several other musicians, which set a series of recently discovered Bob Dylan lyrics to newly composed music. The resulting album, ''Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes'', was a top-40 Billboard album.

In 2023, the opera ''Omar'', co-written by Giddens and Michael Abels, won the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Provided by Wikipedia