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Troy Andrews (born January 2, 1986), also known by the stage name Trombone Shorty, is an American musician, producer, actor and philanthropist from New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known as a trombone and trumpet player but also plays drums, organ, and tuba. He has worked with some of the biggest names in rock, pop, jazz, funk, and hip hop. Andrews is the younger brother of trumpeter and bandleader James Andrews and the grandson of singer and songwriter Jessie Hill. Other musical family members are cousins Glen David Andrews and the late Travis "Trumpet Black" Hill. Andrews began playing trombone at age four, and since 2009 has toured with his own band, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue.

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Trombone Shorty performs 'St. James Infirmary' at the White House

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason MBE (born 4 April 1999) is a British cellist who won the 2016 BBC Young Musician award. He was the first Black musician to win the competition since its launch in 1978. He played at the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle on 19 May 2018 under the direction of Christopher Warren-Green. Kanneh-Mason plays an Amati cello which was made in 1610.

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason MBE (born 4 April 1999) is a British cellist who won the 2016 BBC Young Musician award. He was the first Black musician to win the competition since its launch in 1978. He played at the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle on 19 May 2018 under the direction of Christopher Warren-Green. Kanneh-Mason plays an Amati cello which was made in 1610.

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason - Rachmaninov, Elégie

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason - Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah, arr. Tom Hodge

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Regina Carter is a master of improvisational jazz violin. Though her work draws upon a wide range of musical influences — including Motown, Afro-Cuban, swing, bebop, folk and world music — she has crafted a signature voice and style. In jazz, bowed string instruments such as the violin are not traditionally featured in the solo role; Carter’s performances highlight the often overlooked potential of the jazz violin for its lyric, melodic, and percussive potential. Her early training as a classical musician is reflected in the fluidity, grace, and balance of her performance. Carter’s repertoire retains a firm connection with the familiar while venturing in new, unexpected directions.

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Regina Carter is a master of improvisational jazz violin. Though her work draws upon a wide range of musical influences — including Motown, Afro-Cuban, swing, bebop, folk and world music — she has crafted a signature voice and style. In jazz, bowed string instruments such as the violin are not traditionally featured in the solo role; Carter’s performances highlight the often overlooked potential of the jazz violin for its lyric, melodic, and percussive potential. Her early training as a classical musician is reflected in the fluidity, grace, and balance of her performance. Carter’s repertoire retains a firm connection with the familiar while venturing in new, unexpected directions.

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Regina Carter: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

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Rhiannon Giddens (born February 21, 1977) is an American musician. She is a founding member of the country, blues and old-time music band Carolina Chocolate Drops, where she is the lead singer, fiddle player, and banjo player.Giddens is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina, an alumna of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics,[1] and a 2000 graduate of Oberlin Conservatory at Oberlin College, where she studied opera.[2]In addition to her work with the Grammy-winning[3] Chocolate Drops, Giddens has released two solo albums

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Rhiannon Giddens (born February 21, 1977) is an American musician. She is a founding member of the country, blues and old-time music band Carolina Chocolate Drops, where she is the lead singer, fiddle player, and banjo player.Giddens is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina, an alumna of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics,[1] and a 2000 graduate of Oberlin Conservatory at Oberlin College, where she studied opera.[2]In addition to her work with the Grammy-winning[3] Chocolate Drops, Giddens has released two solo albums

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Carolina Chocolate Drops "Cornbread and Butterbeans"

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Carolina Chocolate Drops performing "Memphis Shakedown"

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Rhiannon Giddens: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

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Florence Price holds the distinction of being the first African-American woman to have a symphonic work performed by a major orchestra. She was born and raised in Little Rock Arkansas, and as a young woman she accepted a job as the head of Clark Atlanta University’s music department. After she married a civil rights attorney, she moved back to Arkansas, but a lynching forced her to move north, to Chicago. In 1932, she wrote her Symphony in E minor as she recovered from an injury, and it was premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra the following year. She remained a prolific composer, with an output at exceeded 300 musical works.

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How Many

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Jay Z's hypnotic, fragmented "spiritual" – his first new solo song in three years – reflects the rapper's disillusionment with police brutality in modern times. "We should be further along," he said in a statement released with the song. Jay said that he finished "spiritual" after Michael Brown's death in 2014, but held onto it, because he said he "knew his death wouldn't be the last."

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Misty  Copeland (born September 10, 1982) is an American ballet dancer for American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of the three leading classical ballet companies in the United States. On June 30, 2015, Copeland became the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in ABT's 75-year history.

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Misty  Copeland (born September 10, 1982) is an American ballet dancer for American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of the three leading classical ballet companies in the United States. On June 30, 2015, Copeland became the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in ABT's 75-year history.

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Swan Lake with Misty Copeland, Gustavo Dudamel & the LA Phil

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Leslie Odom Jr. (born August 6, 1981) is an American actor and singer who has performed on Broadway and in film and television and has released three solo jazz albums. He is known for originating the role of Aaron Burr in the Broadway musical Hamilton, a performance for which he won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album as a principal vocalist. His television roles included Sam Strickland in the musical series Smash (2012–2013). He is also the author of the 2018 book Failing Up.

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Leslie Odom Jr. (born August 6, 1981) is an American actor and singer who has performed on Broadway and in film and television and has released three solo jazz albums. He is known for originating the role of Aaron Burr in the Broadway musical Hamilton, a performance for which he won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album as a principal vocalist. His television roles included Sam Strickland in the musical series Smash (2012–2013). He is also the author of the 2018 book Failing Up.

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Los Angeles native and New York based visual artist, Kehinde Wiley has firmly situated himself within art history’s portrait painting tradition. As a contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists, including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian, Ingres, among others, Wiley, engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic and the sublime in his representation of urban, black and brown men found throughout the world.

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Los Angeles native and New York based visual artist, Kehinde Wiley has firmly situated himself within art history’s portrait painting tradition. As a contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists, including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian, Ingres, among others, Wiley, engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic and the sublime in his representation of urban, black and brown men found throughout the world.

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Lawrence Brownlee (born 1972) is an American operatic tenor particularly associated with the bel canto repertoire. Describing his voice, Speight Jenkins, general director of the Seattle Opera, said: "There are other singers that sing this repertory very well, but I don't think anyone else has quite as beautiful a sound and as rounded a tone," and praise his "incredible top notes", adding about his high F (F5) in "Credeasi, misera": "With him it's not a scream, it's a beautiful sound."

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Lawrence Brownlee (born 1972) is an American operatic tenor particularly associated with the bel canto repertoire. Describing his voice, Speight Jenkins, general director of the Seattle Opera, said: "There are other singers that sing this repertory very well, but I don't think anyone else has quite as beautiful a sound and as rounded a tone," and praise his "incredible top notes", adding about his high F (F5) in "Credeasi, misera": "With him it's not a scream, it's a beautiful sound."

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Lawrence Brownlee, Michael Spyres – Rossini: Otello: "Ah vieni, nel tuo sangue vendicherò le offese"

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Photographing positive images of Black America.

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Photographing positive images of Black America.

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Russell Frederick has covered Hurricane Katrina and the Black Lives Matter protests, as well as photographed President Barack Obama and entertainers D’Angelo, Lauryn Hill, and Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.

“When the world has seen images of Black and Brown communities, it’s always their challenges or their troubles,” Frederick says. “The achievements of Black America, Brown America aren’t seen, and this is what has fed racism and inequality.”

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Leslie Odom Jr. - Speak Now (Official Music Video)

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Amanda Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, as well as an award-winning writer and cum laude graduate of Harvard University, where she studied Sociology. She has written for the New York Times and has three books forthcoming with Penguin Random House. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she began writing at only a few years of age. Now her words have won her invitations to the Obama White House and to perform for Lin-Manuel Miranda, Al Gore, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Malala Yousafzai, and others.

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Amanda Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, as well as an award-winning writer and cum laude graduate of Harvard University, where she studied Sociology. She has written for the New York Times and has three books forthcoming with Penguin Random House. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she began writing at only a few years of age. Now her words have won her invitations to the Obama White House and to perform for Lin-Manuel Miranda, Al Gore, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Malala Yousafzai, and others.

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WATCH: Amanda Gorman reads inauguration poem, 'The Hill We Climb'

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Amanda Gorman: Using your voice is a political choice | TED

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Amanda Gorman Shares New Poem to Kick Off 2022

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Lawrence Brownlee: DONIZETTI Ah mes amis! (La Fille du Régiment)

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Kehinde Wiley is a maven at making a major statement. Barack Obama's official portraitist (he was the president's personal choice for the painting that hangs in the National Portrait Gallery) has just created another first: a larger-than-life public art work-a towering bronze equestrian statue-that was spirited into New York's Times Square in the wee hours of the night, shrouded in a silver drape until its unveiling, complete with a marching band, on September 27.

The eight-ton, 29-foot-high sculpture of a proud black man astride a rearing horse, entitled Rumors of War, is Wiley's bold and blasting call to arms against the army of Confederate statues that still populate Southern states, particularly Va., which boasts the most Confederate monuments, with 10 in Richmond alone. The statue's Broadway appearance, between 46th and 47th Streets, is a collaboration of Times Square Arts, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Sean Kelly Gallery. In December, the sculpture will be permanently installed at the entrance to the Virginia Museum, just a stone's throw from Richmond's infamous Monument Avenue, lined with its enormous Confederate statues. Significantly, it will stand on the recently renamed Arthur Ashe Boulevard, which intersects Monument Avenue, creating a new, historical crossroads.

Wiley found his inspiration for Rumors of War in 2016, when the museum was exhibiting a retrospective of his work. Coming down the avenue and looking up at the huge statues honoring those dark days filled him, he told the crowd gathered at the unveiling, "with dread and fear." Using his signature motif of repurposing art-historical images (the sculpture's title comes from a series of paintings he did in the early 2000s also called Rumors of War), Wiley based his massive new work on Richmond's statue of General J.E.B. Stuart, copying both the scale (including the 16-foot-wide limestone base) and pose of its rider and horse.

But instead of a Southern soldier, Wiley's rider is a young black man, dressed, hip-hop style, in a hoodie, with earphones around his neck, his head crowned with a short bundle of dreads: the contemporary anti-image of a Robert E. Lee. Too far up for the viewer to see, hidden below the horse's bridle, is a heart, with the letters K.H., the artist's initials (his full name and the year are carved into the base).

The brightly garbed Malcolm X Shabazz High School band from Newark, New Jersey, provided the percussion, as a series of speakers welcomed the monumental statue to the square. "We invite artists to come to this place, this chaotic, diverse, and democratic space, to help see ourselves and our society in new ways, to ask difficult questions and in this place of free speech, to speak to the issues of our time," said Times Square Alliance president Tim Tompkins. "So it's fitting and an honor to be here today with Kehinde Wiley, one of the greatest artists of our time, to unveil this work, which among other things speaks to the intersection of beauty, power, privilege, and violence in our society." During its stay in New York, a team of docents armed with iPads will answer questions and engage the public, making the installation an interactive experience.

Alex Nyerges, director of the Virginia museum, said that the plan was to have the statue mark the 400-year anniversary of the arrival of the first slaves in America in 1619; its installation in December 2019 will make it just under the wire. "We are all about inclusivity, accessibility, and relevance," he told the crowd. "And Kehinde Wiley...through a grand, majestic work of art...is changing the conversation today, 400 years later, making this day a day of rebirth, so that we can work through and eliminate racism, hatred, all the things that bring our world down."

But the last word belonged to Wiley. "What does it feel like physically to walk a public space and to have your state, your country, your nation say, 'This is what we stand by'? No! We want more. We demand more.... And today we say yes to something that looks like us. We say yes to inclusivity. We say yes to broader notions of what it means to be an American.... Are we ready?" the artist asked just before the drape came down to reveal his colossal sculpture. "Let's get this party started!"

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Kehinde Wiley Makes a Statement With New Sculpture in Times Square

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Kehinde Wiley is a maven at making a major statement. Barack Obama's official portraitist (he was the president's personal choice for the painting that hangs in the National Portrait Gallery) has just created another first: a larger-than-life public art work-a towering bronze equestrian statue-that was spirited into New York's Times Square in the wee hours of the night, shrouded in a silver drape until its unveiling, complete with a marching band, on September 27.

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Romare Bearden was an African-American artist, author, and songwriter. He worked with many types of media including cartoons, oils, and collages. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden grew up in New York City and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from New York University in 1935.

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Romare Bearden was an African-American artist, author, and songwriter. He worked with many types of media including cartoons, oils, and collages. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden grew up in New York City and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from New York University in 1935.

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Lawrence Brownlee - Bring Him Home from Les Miserable

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Lawrence Brownlee, Je crois entendre encore

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Copeland Dances 'The Nutcracker' at the WSJ Cafe

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra, who gave the world premiere of her First Symphony in 1933, performs an excerpt of her composition String Quartet in G Major.

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra, who gave the world premiere of her First Symphony in 1933, performs an excerpt of her composition String Quartet in G Major.

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Riccardo Muti conducts Florence Price's Andante moderato

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"Juba" from Florence Price's "String Quartet in a minor"

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"Juba" from Florence Price's "String Quartet in a minor"

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"Juba" from Florence Price's "String Quartet in a minor"

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Concerto in One Movement by Florence B. Price | TMCO | Libi Lebel

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Concerto in One Movement by Florence B. Price | TMCO | Libi Lebel

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Concerto in One Movement by Florence B. Price | TMCO | Libi Lebel

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Hurricane Season - Featuring 3 minutes of circular breathing

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Hurricane Season - Featuring 3 minutes of circular breathing

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Paige Hernandez, a Baltimore native, is a multidisciplinary artist who is critically acclaimed as a performer, director, choreographer and playwright. Paige is most notably known for her effective fusion of theatre, hip-hop, dance and education. She has nearly twenty years of experience in arts administration, arts education, creating new works, producing and performing.

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Paige Hernandez, a Baltimore native, is a multidisciplinary artist who is critically acclaimed as a performer, director, choreographer and playwright. Paige is most notably known for her effective fusion of theatre, hip-hop, dance and education. She has nearly twenty years of experience in arts administration, arts education, creating new works, producing and performing.

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Paige Hernandez - multidisciplinary creative

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Paige Hernandez is a multidisciplinary artist who is critically acclaimed as a performer, director, choreographer and playwright. Â As an AEA equity actress, Paige has performed on many stages throughout the country. She has collaborated with the Lincoln Center and has been commissioned by several companies including the National New Play Network, the Smithsonian, The Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse and the Glimmerglass Festival.

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Paige talks about her one woman show about bullying, "The Shape of A Girl"

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Paige talks about her one woman show about bullying, "The Shape of A Girl"

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Amy Sherald (American b. Columbus, GA 1973, lives Baltimore) received her MFA in Painting from Maryland Institute College of Art (2004) and BA in Painting from Clark-Atlanta University (1997), and was a Spelman College International Artist-in-Residence in Portobelo, Panama (1997). . . she and Kehinde Wiley were selected by former President Barack Obama (Wiley) and Former First Lady Michelle Obama (Sherald) to paint their official portraits, becoming the first African Americans ever to receive presidential portrait commissions from the National Portrait Gallery. The portraits were unveiled together in 2018 and have significantly increased attendance at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

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Amy Sherald (American b. Columbus, GA 1973, lives Baltimore) received her MFA in Painting from Maryland Institute College of Art (2004) and BA in Painting from Clark-Atlanta University (1997), and was a Spelman College International Artist-in-Residence in Portobelo, Panama (1997). . . she and Kehinde Wiley were selected by former President Barack Obama (Wiley) and Former First Lady Michelle Obama (Sherald) to paint their official portraits, becoming the first African Americans ever to receive presidential portrait commissions from the National Portrait Gallery. The portraits were unveiled together in 2018 and have significantly increased attendance at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

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Amy Sherald on painting "everyday people"

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Among his generation of concert artists, pianist Awadagin Pratt is acclaimed for his musical insight and intensely involving performances in recital and with symphony orchestras. Born in Pittsburgh, Awadagin Pratt began studying piano at the age of six. Three years later, having moved to Normal, Illinois with his family, he also began studying violin. At the age of 16 he entered the University of Illinois where he studied piano, violin, and conducting. He subsequently enrolled at the Peabody Conservatory of Music where he became the first student in the school’s history to receive diplomas in three performance areas – piano, violin and conducting. In recognition of this achievement and for his work in the field of classical music, Mr. Pratt received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Johns Hopkins as well as an honorary doctorate from Illinois Wesleyan University after delivering the commencement address in 2012.

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Among his generation of concert artists, pianist Awadagin Pratt is acclaimed for his musical insight and intensely involving performances in recital and with symphony orchestras. Born in Pittsburgh, Awadagin Pratt began studying piano at the age of six. Three years later, having moved to Normal, Illinois with his family, he also began studying violin. At the age of 16 he entered the University of Illinois where he studied piano, violin, and conducting. He subsequently enrolled at the Peabody Conservatory of Music where he became the first student in the school’s history to receive diplomas in three performance areas – piano, violin and conducting. In recognition of this achievement and for his work in the field of classical music, Mr. Pratt received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Johns Hopkins as well as an honorary doctorate from Illinois Wesleyan University after delivering the commencement address in 2012.

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Awadagin Pratt Performs at the White House: 2 of 8

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Sesame Street - Awadagin Pratt Plays the Piano