Constance Hauman 'Plays It Forward': A Musical Gratitude Project
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🗓️ 26 November 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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This episode, opera singer and funk keyboardist Constance Hauman speaks to Ari Shapiro about her new album, Tropical Thunderstorm, her experiences as a multi-genre musician and an artist she's grateful for: Daf player Asal Malekzadeh.
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| 0:00.0 | It's consider this from NPR. |
| 0:02.0 | Yesterday on Thanksgiving, we took a short break from the news to introduce you to a musical |
| 0:06.3 | gratitude project called Play It Forward. |
| 0:10.0 | It works like this. |
| 0:11.2 | I talked to a musician about their work, and they tell me about another musician whose |
| 0:15.1 | work inspires them, and then, as you're about to hear, we track down that musician and |
| 0:20.7 | continue the chain. |
| 0:21.9 | So in our last episode, Funk Legend, George Clinton told us about Constance Howman. |
| 0:28.9 | This is her song Swag, from the album Tropical Thunderstorm. |
| 0:43.1 | Howman is a pianist who plays in funk and rock bands, and who also happens to be a world |
| 0:48.4 | renowned opera singer. |
| 0:49.8 | Here's how Clinton came to know her. |
| 0:51.5 | She opened up for us at BB Kings in New York. |
| 0:54.9 | We ended up working together almost two years, all through Australia, Europe, everywhere. |
| 1:01.6 | But I had no idea about the opera part of it till somebody said Constance sang opera |
| 1:07.8 | herself, and I said, yeah, they showed me a video, and I'm like, oh my god, what? |
| 1:13.5 | I had to call up and say, you didn't tell me about this. |
| 1:17.1 | Well, we're going to go to Constance next, so what would you like to say to her? |
| 1:20.4 | I'm ready to hit the road again. |
| 1:22.4 | Are you ready to hit the road again? |
| 1:24.4 | Oh, god. |
| 1:30.4 | Coming up Constance Howman, the next link in our chain of Play It Forward. |
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