Born on February 21, 1977, in Greensboro, North Carolina, Rhiannon Giddens is a
singer-songwriter, violinist, and banjo player who garnered acclaim as a
founding member of the old-time string band Carolina Chocolate Drops. Her work
with the group has earned her a Grammy Award for their album Genuine Negro Jig
released in 2011 and, at the time, was a high point in a relatively short
professional career that had seen the musician rise steadily up into the elite
ranks of US country music. In tandem with her success with the band, Rhiannon
Giddens launched a successful solo career th...