Flashback: Esperanza Spalding at the 2008 Roots Picnic « Okayplayer

Flashback: Esperanza Spalding at the 2008 Roots Picnic

by dantana on February 17, 2011 NEWS

We’re still reeling from the Grammy Awards where The Roots and John Legend won for three 3 statues, but we are also still completely gassed by Esperanza Spalding, who won for Best New Artist of The Year, beating out favorites like the Biebs (sorry, kiddies), Drake, and Florence + The Machine (who’s album is amazing, get that). It was 3 years ago that Esperanza was the new kid on the block at The 1st Annual Roots Picnic and her incredible talent blew us all away. The above video was originally hosted on the now defunct iMeem.com, so I pulled out the drives to revive it just for the occasion. And speaking of revive, check out these two articles on our Revivalist channel, “Esperanza Who? A Beginner’s Guide” and “The Potential of The Bieber Upset.”

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Strictly Business

Posted February 18, 2011 at 3:07 am

Amazing.

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jjj

Posted February 19, 2011 at 11:25 am

she’s amazing. the grammys did something right. unprecedentedly and unexpectedly right.

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Nini

Posted February 19, 2011 at 8:43 pm

I actually checked some of her music out after she won and I really like it!
And just in case you didn’t know Raphael Saadiq’s new album ‘Stone Rollin’ will be in stores May 10th, check out his first single “Good Man” http://vevo.ly/iifvN8

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dynamicproducer

Posted February 20, 2011 at 3:35 pm

she’s definitely talented!

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B.Kyle

Posted February 22, 2011 at 5:58 pm

I remember her from The Tipping Point jam session recordings! Man… and Ledesi was there too… long BEFORE popularity struck. True musicians let the music take them wherever it may – B.Kyle

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