Cynthia Erivo Sings With 'A Bit Of A Smile'

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🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The British actor and singer played abolitionist Harriet Tubman in Harriet, and Aretha Franklin in Genius: Aretha. Now she's defying gravity as Elphaba in Wicked. She spoke with Terry Gross in 2021 about some of her roles and her vocal training.

Also, Ken Tucker shares his picks for great Christmas music, and David Bianculli reviews the Amazon Prime series The Sticky.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation,
0:07.4	working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all.
0:11.5	On the web at theshmit.org.
0:14.8	This is Fresh Air. I'm David B. and Cooley.
0:17.5	Singer and actress Cynthia Arrivo has just been nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked.
0:25.4	Here she is singing one of that musical's most iconic songs.
0:28.8	It's time to try defying gravity. I think I'll try
0:37.8	defying gravity
0:40.9	and you can't pull me down
0:44.3	Can't I make you understand
0:46.8	You're having delusions of grandeur?
0:49.3	I'm through accepting limits
0:52.3	because someone says they're so
0:55.4	Some things I cannot change
0:58.6	But till I try I'll never know
1:02.2	Too long I've been afraid of
1:05.6	Losing love I guess I've lost
1:08.8	Well if that's love
1:10.6	It comes at much too high a cost.
1:19.5	That's sooner by defying gravity.
1:21.8	That's Cynthia Arrivo.
1:23.9	In 2016, after coming to the U.S. from England,
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