Meshell Ndegeocello, Samora Pinderhughes

Meshell Ndegeocello has survived the best and worst of what a career in music has to offer. 

She eschewed genre for originality, celebrity for longevity, and musical trends for musical truths. Fans have come to expect the unexpected and follow her on sojourns into soul, R&B, jazz, hip-hop, rock—all bound by the search for love, justice, respect, and resolution. 

Performing under the banner of Hanif Abdurraqib’s transdisciplinary poetry series, I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long, she shares the stage with Samora Pinderhughes, a composer, pianist, vocalist, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist known for striking intimacy, carefully crafted and radically honest lyrics, and high-level musicianship.