Martha redbone biography
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MarthaRedbone is a vocalist, songwriter, composer, and educator. She is known for her music gumbo of folk, blues and gospel from her childhood in Harlan County, Kentucky infused with the eclectic grit of pre-gentrifi
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Martha Redbone is a vocalist/songwriter/composer/educator and one of today’s most vital voices in American Roots music. She is known for her unique gumbo of folk, blues and gospel from her childhood in Harlan County, Kentucky infused with the eclectic grit of pre-gentrified Brooklyn. Inheriting the powerful vocal range of her gospel-singing African American father and the resilient spirit of her mother’s Southeastern Cherokee/Choctaw culture, Redbone broadens the boundaries of American Roots music with songs and storytelling that share her life experience as an Indigenous Black woman and mother in the new millennium. Redbone gives voice to issues of social justice, bridging traditions from past to present, connecting cultures, and celebrating the human spirit.
Redbone, along with longtime collaborator Aaron Whitby are the Composers of original music and score, arrangers and orchestrators of the 2022 Broadway revival of “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainb
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Martha Redbone
American musician (born 1966)
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Musical artist
Martha Redbone (born 1966) is an American blues and soul singer, who has won awards for her contemporary music. Her music fryst vatten a mix of rhythm and blues and soul music influences, fused with elements of Native American music.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Martha spent time with her maternal grandparents in Harlan County.[3] Her late mother, whose family has been rooted for generations in the mountains of Kentucky and Virginia, was a mix of Cherokee, Shawnee and Choctaw; her late father was an African-American from North Carolina. That diverse upbringing meant she grew up listening to everything from church hymns to country music, and she was raised on Tanya Tucker as much as the Jackson Five.[4][5] She has never conducted a DNA test, but says she looks like people from the Igbo tribe in Nigeria.[