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Leah Lemm talks to Noreen Thomas, an organic farmer outside of Moorhead, MN, with Doubting Thomas Farms. It’s the very beginning of March, I'm in…

South African musician Zola's work is featured in Tsotsi, this year's Oscar winner for best foreign film. He is the country's leading kwaito artist. The genre is a mixture of South African pop, house music and Western hip-hop. Zola talks about his music.

Former Belle and Sebastian singer Isobel Campbell radiates tranquility and calm wonder on "Willows Song." Emulating the haunted, melancholic tone of late-'60s British folk, Isobel Campbell, her off-in-the-cosmos soprano lures her listeners past the words, into the sloping melody and the thick swirls of atmosphere around it.

NPR's Scott Simon takes a moment to remember singer and activist Harry Belafonte, who died this week at the age of 96.

In "Sea Change," the London folk-pop duo Turin Brakes makes the most of its impeccable vocal phrasing. Opening with a picked guitar line that wouldn't sound out of place if played on a banjo in a bluegrass band, the song moves with a bright and bouncy pastoral swing that's packaged alongside dark sentiments such as, "Six billion backs against the wall / Now, do we walk or run?"

In a musical world where her instrument is often eclipsed by the higher-profile violin, Kim Kashkashian stands out as one of the world's few violists with an solo career. Her new album of songs from Spain and Argentina, arranged and performed with pianist Robert Levin, underscores the richness of the viola's vocal qualities.

Reacting to the vocal acrobatics of 19th-century opera, Monk's vocal music draws inspiration from the clarity of medieval and folk traditions. The result is a sound that feels both ancient and new.

Jack Valenti died Thursday at the age of 85. He was the former president of the Motion Picture Association of America, and an influential person in American culture for decades.

Bob Dorough composed, conducted and sang much of the music in the beloved series of educational shorts.

The Grammy-winning British singer has just released her second album, 21. Adele says her love affair with American soul began with a happy accident in a London record store.

Soul music legend Bobby Womack has died at age 70. We remember him in words and music.

A clutter of nearly forgotten American pop culture has a home in Fort Mitchell, Ky. On a quiet residential street, by appointment only, visitors can tour the Vent Haven Museum. It's a tribute to the great figures of ventriloquism -- human and otherwise.

From lovable to hostile, singer Nina Simone left people with widely varying impressions of her — but her talent was indisputable. In Princess Noire, Nadine Cohodas chronicles the life of Nina Simone and the passion that inspired the anthems of the civil rights movement.

Nella's debut album, Voy, is a meditation on the land she's left behind. The work earned her a 2019 Latin Grammy nomination in the category of Best New Artist.

Brazil is now a world power when it comes to food production. And a leading symbol of that might is Katia Abreu, a senator, landowner and head of the country's most powerful Big Agro association. But environmentalists say limits need to be placed on the farming industry in order to protect the forests of the Amazon.

Rivers Solomon's lyrical, wrenching new novella is based on a track from the experimental rap group clipping., about a peaceful undersea race descended from slaves thrown overboard in the Atlantic.

With all that's going on in the Middle East now, it's easy to forget that the Arab Spring began just two years ago in Tunisia. A video of one of Mathlouthi's songs went viral and became an anthem for protesters in her homeland during the December 2010 uprising. Her debut album is out now.

Singer Sharon Jones came to define what was called the "neo-soul" movement and was known for her high-energy performances. Jones died Friday after a battle with cancer.

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