Esperanza Spalding

Quick Facts

Full Name	Esperanza Spalding
Occupation	Jazz Singer
Date Of Birth	Oct 18, 1984(1984-10-18)
Age	40
Birthplace	Portland
Country	United States
Birth City	Oregon
Horoscope	Libra

Esperanza Spalding Biography

Esperanza Spalding is one of the most popular and richest Jazz Singer who was born on October 18, 1984 in Portland, Oregon, United States. A jazz bassist and singer who was awarded in 2011 the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in addition to three other awards. She has collaborated with organizations like Free the Slaves to end human trafficking.

She has mentioned She has cited Ella Fitzgerald as an inspiration. as an hero.

Esperanza Emily Spalding (born October 18, 1984) is an American jazz bassist, singer, songwriter, and composer. Her accolades include four Grammy Awards, a Boston Music Award, and a Soul Train Music Award.

Gary Burton, Executive Vice President at Berklee, said in 2004 that Spalding had “a great time feel, she can confidently read the most complicated compositions, and she communicates her upbeat personality in everything she plays.”

Her brother and sister were taken care of by her mother who was the sole parents living in Portland, Oregon.

Esperanza Spalding Net Worth

Esperanza Spalding is one of the richest Jazz Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Esperanza Spalding 's net worth $2 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was a gifted musician who was part of the Chamber Music Society of Oregon from around the age of 5. Then she left at the age of 15 after she was appointed a concertmaster.

The Album Radio Music Society sold more than 114,000 copies in the United States. She was the first jazz musician to receive an award such as the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

Esperanza Emily Spalding was born October 18, 1984 in Portland, Oregon, to an African-American father and a mother of Welsh, Native American, and Hispanic descent. She was raised in the King neighborhood of northeast Portland, which at that time was a place of gang violence. Her mother raised Esperanza and her brother as a single parent. During her childhood, Spalding suffered from juvenile idiopathic arthritis, and as a result spent much of her elementary school years being home-schooled, though she also attended King Elementary School in northeast Portland. During this period, Spalding found the opportunity to pick up instruction in music by listening to her mother’s college professor, who instructed her mother in jazz guitar. Spalding said that she sometimes accompanied her mother to classes, sat listening under the piano, then at home repeated what the teacher had played. Spalding remained in the King neighborhood of Portland until age ten, when she relocated with her family to the suburbs of Portland.

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Siddhartha Mitter wrote in The Boston Globe in 2008 that Spalding’s singing was a noticeable difference in Esperanza, making it more mainstream and attractive to a broader audience.

Facts & Trivia

Esperanza Ranked on the list of most popular Jazz Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Esperanza Spalding celebrates birthday on October 18 of every year.

In 2008 Spalding recalled the tour as educational, helping her learn to accompany a vocalist and also how to sustain energy and interest playing the same material nightly. She continued to perform with Austin periodically for three years. During the same period, while at Berklee, Spalding studied under saxophonist Joe Lovano, before eventually touring with him. They began as a trio, expanding into a quartet before joining quintet US5 and traveling across the United States from New York to California. As of 2008, she was also in the process of developing several courses for students at Berklee, including one learning harmony and theory through transcribing. Due to touring commitments, Spalding stopped giving classes at Berklee. She lives in New York and Austin, Texas.

What ethnicity is Esperanza Spalding?

Spalding grew up in a multilingual multiethnic household ( her single mother was of Welsh, Hispanic, and Native American descent, and her father was African American ).

What happened Esperanza Spalding?

Last February, the Portland-born jazz-soul musician returned to Oregon from Massachusetts , where she teaches a course on music therapy at Harvard, to curate an artist retreat in a secluded area of Wasco County.

Is Esperanza Spalding Afro Latino?

Esperanza Emily Spalding was born October 18, 1984, in Portland, Oregon, to an African American father and a mother of Welsh, Native American, and Hispanic descent.

Does Esperanza Spalding have perfect pitch?

ESPERANZA SPALDING: I’m working on that, but it’s weird, I heard a lot of people having the same thing, it’s a strange phenomenon, like if you’re touching your instrument you know which note it is, like if you hear a note or a chord somewhere you know what it is. But I don’t have perfect pitch.

How did Esperanza learn violin?

Esperanza fell in love with music at age four, after seeing the classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma perform on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Too small to hold the cello, she took up the violin. After a few violin lessons she was able to practice and study on her own. Her progress on her first instrument was extraordinary.