Dee Dee Bridgewater: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
April 2, 2018, Suraya Mohamed This is me coming back full circle in my life, Dee Dee Bridgewater told NPR right before this Tiny Desk performance. Ever since her teenage years, she s wanted to make her latest album, Yes, I m Ready. Now, a gorgeous 67 years young, Bridgewater is connecting openly with her roots, her birthplace and the town she s loved all her life. When she was just three years old, her family moved from Memphis, Tennessee, to Flint, Michigan. Years later, Bridgewater could still hear the soul sounds of Memphis on WDIA, the first radio station in America programmed entirely by AfricanAmericans for AfricanAmericans. She recalled, I could catch it when I was in Flint as a teenager and I would listen to it after 11:00 at night, because that was the only time I could get it when all the other stations were off the air. I know it was real, cause I went through it and these were all songs I heard on Bridgewater brought three of these songs to the Tiny Desk: First, is
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