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Esperanza Spalding Performs at Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony, Concert By Aubrey Everett Among a host of other world-renowned musicians, 25-year-old jazz sensation Esperanza Spalding will perform at the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo, Norway today. Spalding is a bassist and vocalist from Portland, Ore. and considered a prodigy in the jazz world. The two-hour event, hosted by Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett Smith, will be shown live today at 1 p.m. on CNN. The show will begin at 8 p.m. local time in Oslo. 200902_048a_span3 Johann Sauty Esperanza Spalding Spalding will join fellow American artists Toby Keith, Wyclef Jean and Donna Summer at the concert. The group is rounded out with British singer Natasha Bedingfield, Irish pop group Westlife, Norweigen vocalist and violinist Alexander Rybak, Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi, Amadou & Mariam from Mali, and Chinese pianist Lang Lang. The concert follows a ceremony yesterday where President Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
Esperanza Spalding (born October 18, 1984 in Portland, Oregon-[1][2]) is an American jazz bassist and singer. Spalding currently lives in New Jersey.Spalding is the 2005 recipient of the Boston Jazz Society scholarship for outstanding musicianship. Early life and education: Spalding grew up in the King neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, a neighborhood she herself describes as “ghetto” and “pretty scary.” Her mother, who raised her and her brother as a single parent, was an independent, industrious woman.Spalding is of African-American, Welsh and Spanish descent, and describes this as a diverse ethnic heritage that includes “Welsh, Hispanic, and Native American roots in addition to the unidentified roots from Africa.” Her black roots come from her father: “My mom is Welsh, Hispanic, and Native American, and my father is black.” (Source from: http://www.bassplayer.com/article/only-24-jazz/may-08/35479)
