On her second album, A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey (Jazz Village), released last Friday, McCalla, 30, again finds her way lightly through a very dark thematic landscape, this one colored even more intensely by her Haitian-Creole heritage. The record’s title comes from a Haitian proverb, but it’s also the name of a book by ethnic musicologist Gage Averill about the intersection of popular music and political power in Haiti. Through that book, McCalla connected traditional Haitian folk themes with the plight of refugees who fled the country in the 1990s and whose hope and desperation gave rise to its own songwriting tradition.
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With Her Hymn to Haiti, Leyla McCalla Is on Her Way to Becoming a Star
How do you go from playing cello in the street to becoming a successful recording artist? In Leyla McCalla's case, you combine preternatural ability with dumb luck, a knack for mining your own ...
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