blues
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But she arrives as a decorated musician who has woven Latin American, blues and soul traditions into nine bilingual albums — including her 2024 Grammy Award-winning acoustic album “X Mí.”
From Los Angeles Times
A palette of soft pinks, purples and blues lend warmth and dimension to Rana’s starkly beautiful home.
Carter incorporates Guy’s real-life signature polka dots to highlight “this is a real story of the blues, and this is a real bluesman.”
From Los Angeles Times
But then it's finished "and there's a bit of baby blues afterwards," as she comes down off the adrenaline rush.
From Barron's
Meanwhile, Black Americans enslaved on plantations were using homemade instruments such as stringed gourds to produce music with complex rhythms influenced by African traditions, which would later develop into blues and jazz.
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