Rhiannon Giddens has built a remarkable career with her own form of folk. She applies this music, rooted in history and connected to the present, across diverse domains.

As a two-time Grammy Award-winning singer and multi-instrumentalist, Pulitzer Prize winner, and composer of opera, ballet, and film music, Giddens focuses her work on making visible people whose contributions to American music history have previously been overlooked or erased. Additionally, through her art, she advocates for a more accurate understanding of the country’s musical origins. Giddens has published two children’s books and wrote and performed music for the soundtrack of Red Dead Redemption II, one of the best-selling video games of all time. As co-founder of the leading Black string band Carolina Chocolate Drops and the all-female banjo supergroup Our Native Daughters, Giddens is as much a curator as she is a creator.

As Pitchfork once wrote: “few artists are so fearless and so insatiable in their quest.” That journey led to NPR naming her one of the 25 most influential female musicians of the 21st century, and to American Songwriter describing her as “one of the most important musical thinkers currently walking the earth.”