Esperanza Spalding YouTube Video Thanking WEMU Listeners

89.1 WEMU | By Linda Yohn

Published June 19, 2012 at 7:32 AM EDT

Esperanza Spalding receiving her "Best New Artist" Grammy Award in 2011.

When bassist, composer, vocalist and musical visionary Esperanza Spalding's CD, "Radio Music Society" first came out it was an immediate favorite of WEMU listeners and hosts. With her appearance at The Power Center on Thursday, June 21st for the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, the disc once again rose to the top.

WEMU “SWEET SIXTEEN” AIRPLAY June 11 to June 17, 2012:

LINDA YOHN, MUSIC DIRECTOR

1. ESPERANZA SPALDING “Radio Music Society” (Heads Up/Montuno)

~COMPILED BY DANIEL LONG AND LINDA YOHN

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Linda Yohn

Linda Yohn simply cannot remember a day in her life that was not filled with music. Her early life was full of changes as the daughter of a well-respected cancer research scientist who moved his family about, but one thing was constant: the love of music instilled by her mother. So, when it seemed life was too hard to bear, young Linda would listen to her radio, play her guitar, dance her heart out and sing at the top of her lungs. So, it isn’t so strange that “older” Linda still does all those things!

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