Biography
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.
Filmography
all 33
self 28
Movies 22
TV Shows 11
The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking (2023)
The Articulate Hour (2023)
My Music with Rhiannon Giddens (2023)
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2022)
Descendant (2022)
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon (2022)
Cumasc: Seisiúin sa Black Gate (2022)
Country Music: Live at the Ryman (2019)
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (2018)
When Patsy Cline Was... Crazy (2017)
The Tommy Tiernan Show (2017)
Bill Murray: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize (2016)
David Holt's State of Music (2016)
The American Epic Sessions (2016)
The Road to ACL (2016)
We're Still Here: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited (2015)
David Holt's State of Music (2015)
Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued (2014)
The Winding Stream (2014)
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis' (2013)
The Librarian and The Banjo (2013)
Nashville (2012)
We Walk The Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash (2012)
Infinity Hall Live (2012)
Give Me the Banjo (2011)
Parenthood (2010)
Nurse Jackie (2009)
The Great Debaters (2007)
The Daily Show (1996)
Cover Your Ears
Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind: The Carolina Chocolate Drops' Story
Black Fiddlers
Reclaiming History: Our Native Daughters
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GenderFemale
Birthday1977-02-21 (47 years old)
Birth PlaceGreensboro, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsLegacy of Americana Award, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, MacArthur Fellows Program
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