Leyla mccalla biography sample

Like these authors, McCalla looks to songwriting as a way to increase faith and hope, encourage community thinking, and catalyze personal transformation.

Leyla mccalla biography sample

Produced by Maryam Qudus, McCalla was joined by longtime bandmates and collaborators Shawn Myers on percussion and drums, Pete Olynciw on electric bass and piano, and Nahum Zdybel on guitars. Qudus is featured on synthesizers, organs and backing vocals. It was an intimidating process, but it also helped me realize how held I am by the musicians I work with.

In addition to cello, she also plays banjo and guitar. McCalla's critically acclaimed album Vari-Colored Songs is a tribute to Langston Hughes , which included adaptations of his poems, Haitian folk songs sung in Haitian Creole , [ 4 ] and original compositions. McCalla lives in the New Orleans area and has three children. Contents move to sidebar hide.

Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. American classical and folk musician born Haitian folk Louisiana folk Classical Folk. And then I did the crazy commission project—the wild, most ambitious project of my life— Breaking the Thermometer , which became a theatrical performance and then a record.

And I worked on that for years, a lot of research and collaboration. It was creative expansion on steroids for me. My dad helped me. The archivist Laura Wagner helped me. His mentee and spiritual son, Shawn [Myers], plays in my band and was a big part of being able to bring those sounds into a 21st-century sonic space. So after Breaking the Thermometer , it was like, Wait a minute—who am I?

What do I want to do? What do I want to say? What am I about? What is this moment of my life about? And music is where I get to do that the most. Oh my God, that one exists?! And it does bring out a different part of my personality, my voice changes. English feels like where I can be most poetic and honest in a certain way. How do you make art while all this other madness is happening?

France : Ananda Garcia, Caramba ananda caramba. Frank Abraham , F-Cat Frank f-cat. Blaauw mojo. Belgium : Peter Verstraelen peter peterverstraelen. Spain : Saul Presa, Metric saul metricp. Italy : Magalie Berardo magalie musicalista.