H.E.R.

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The multi-talented musician H.E.R. has worked to avoid becoming a package for pop cultural consumption, with her name and signature sunglasses meant to make the audience focus on the music and not on her. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with the artist to talk about her meteoric rise from child prodigy to the heights of the music world, including winning a Grammy, an Oscar and performing at the Super Bowl.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.4	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:10.0	I am so excited to bring you our conversation today with one of the biggest stars and
0:14.7	biggest talents, honestly, in all of music.
0:17.6	She goes by the name of her.
0:19.8	Perhaps you know her from her performance of America the Beautiful at the Super Bowl
0:23.8	this year.
0:24.8	She played electric guitar and sang.
0:27.4	Perhaps you know her for having won a Grammy again this year for Song of the Year.
0:32.0	I can't breathe, which was written after the death and the murder of George Floyd.
0:36.6	Or perhaps you know her also this year.
0:38.4	By the way, we're only six months in.
0:39.8	This all has happened this year.
0:42.3	She won an Oscar for Best Original Song.
0:46.2	So she is on fire right now and she is just so talented.
0:50.1	She grew up in Northern California.
0:52.3	Her dad was in a jam band.
0:54.0	You'll hear all about this.
0:55.0	So she just got the bug at a very, very young age plays all the instruments.
1:00.2	Like I don't want to go this far yet, but it's getting close.
1:05.0	Leni Kravitz like in other words, writes the song, sings the song, plays the guitar, plays
1:11.8	the drums, plays the keyboard.
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