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Jad Abumrad sits down with host Ana González to talk about her new podcast, Our Common Nature, a musical journey with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. As the conversation reveals, Jad actually helped connect Ana with Yo-Yo Ma!When the world stopped in 2020, Yo-Yo Ma started thinking about how m ...  Show more

In a world that’s on fire, what do we do with art? Like, what can music actually do? Today, Jad Abumrad is back with his first major project since Dolly Parton’s America. Fela Kuti: Fear No Man is a twelve episode exploration of the life, work, and legacy of the Nigerian singer F ...  Show more

The Rise and Fall of Black Swan: Episode One from The Vanishing of Harry Pace,<span> a six-part series created by Jad Abumrad and Shima Oliaee. </span>

Harry Pace founded Black Swan Records exactly 100 years ago. Pace launched the career of Ethel Waters, inadve ...

Lift Every Voice: Episode Six<span> </span>from The Vanishing of Harry Pace,<span> a six-part series created by Jad Abumrad and Shima Oliaee. </span>

<span>Black Swan Records was first to record the anthem Lift Every Voice and Sing. From a family's Thanksgiving ...

Our Harlem Moon: Episode Four from The Vanishing of Harry Pace,<span> a six-part series created by Jad Abumrad and Shima Oliaee. </span>

In this spin-off tale, Ethel Waters hijacks a degrading song and makes the music her own.

In 1921, a man named Harry Pace started the first major Black-owned record company in the United States. He called it Black Swan Records.

In an era when few Black musicians were recorded, the company was revolutionary. It launched the careers of Ethel Waters, Fletcher ...