New York Times’ Style magazine is putting a spotlight on Solange and other singers, including Esperanza Spalding, Corinne Bailey Rae and Les Nubians, for it’s “Nightie Aphrodites” fashion feature. Showing off “how to pair Afros with evening gowns,” the ladies look seductive and sweet in the black-and-white shoot. Solange Makes 6-Year-Old Son Her Date For […]

Janelle Monae, Esperanza Spalding, Kanye West and M.I.A. all appear in W Magazine’s latest issue, the Music & Style issue. Proving that the love affair between fashion and music has never been hotter, photographer Max Vadukul captures 10 designers and the musicians who inspire them most. Meet the pairs of “Behind the Muses”: Kanye West […]

Esperanza Spalding is featured in the May 2011 issue of InStyle magazine. The bass-playing jazz singer who rightfully won the Best New Artist Grammy Award this year (instead of Justin Bieber), wears neon looks from Michael Kors, Prada and Jil Sander. If you still don’t know who she is, get familiar: Who Is Esperanza Spalding? […]

Grammy winner Esperanza Spalding is at work on the follow-up to her 2010 album, Chamber Music Society, with none other than A Tribe Called Quest‘s Q-Tip in the producer’s chair. Q-Tip confirmed his involvement with Spalding’s project in December 2010 via Twitter.

Justin Bieber fans were outraged when their idol lost the Grammy for Best New Artist to jazz singer/bassist Esperanza Spalding.  They were so outraged that they defaced her Wikipedia page.

Esperanza Spalding shocked everyone last night at the Grammy Awards when she took home the “Best New Artist” Grammy. Spalding has been making headlines in the jazz world before her 2006 debut solo album, “Junjo,”and President Obama selected her to perform at the Oslo City Hall when he accepted his 2009 Nobel Prize, as well […]

Prince announced the “Welcome 2 America” tour at a press conference at New York City’s famed Apollo Theater. Prince will be joined on the multi-city tour of the U.S. with Sheila E, Atlanta's own Janelle Monae, Esperanza Spalding, Cassandra Wilson, Mint Condition, Maceo Parker and Larry Graham & Graham Central Station.