Who is Esperanza Spalding?

Tuesday March 29, 2011

from The Telegraph (UK)
By: Michael Gonzales

Last month Esperanza Spalding became the first jazz musician to win a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

It had been assumed that the teen pin-up Justin Bieber was a shoo-in for the prize.

And no sooner had Spalding snatched it from under his button nose, than a global army of furious ‘Beliebers’ were vandalising her Wikipedia page and bombarding Twitter with anti-Esperanza messages.

The most common, and most withering, put-down was simply, ‘Who is Esperanza Spalding anyway?’

Three weeks before the Grammys, on a freezing afternoon in New York City, I meet Spalding at the Bowery Hotel – a building that smells of old wood and new money – and it is true: most of the world has never heard of her. ‘I didn’t get into music to be a star,’ explains the 26-year-old composer, double-bassist and singer.

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