Pretty Yende
'It sounded supernatural to me' - Pretty Yende on first hearing opera at age sixteen
South African superstar soprano Pretty Yende reveals she thought opera must be supernatural when she first heard it as a 16-year-old. Gareth Edwards, the director of the new film version of Godzilla, explains the dark origins of the mega-popular monster. The best blues singer you鈥檝e never heard of - 鈥楲ittle Miss Cornshucks鈥� - and the medical reason why her voice is literally unique.
We visit to the studio of the musician and superstar singer-songwriter and music producer Pharrell Williams. L-FRESH the Lion tells us what it鈥檚 like to be a Sikh hip hop artist. How the spirited and fearless Georgia O鈥橩eeffe changed the landscape of American art. The Chinese Film director Jia Zhanke on why his crime film A Touch of Sin, may never get a release in China. And, we hear about the play that has been running in Buenos Aires since 2005 and has gone on to tour 22 countries and has been translated into eight different languages 鈥� what is its appeal?
(Photo: from left to right, Little Miss Cornshucks, Pretty Yende and Georgia O'Keeffe. Credit: Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection).
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