Esperanza Spalding
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October 18, 1984
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Esperanza Spalding Bio
Esperanza Emily Spalding was born on October 18, 1984 in Portland, Oregon. She was a star from a young age and was a violinist in the Chamber Music Society of Oregon when she was only five years old. After dropping out of high school and pursuing a GED, she received a full scholarship to the Berklee College of Music.
The Berklee College of Music awarded her a music teaching position when she was only twenty years old, and she was featured in a New York Times article in 2006. Later that year, she released her first album Junjo. She released Esparanza in 2011, which won her a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. She would later go on to win three more Grammy Awards as well as a nomination. She has also won awards at the Boston Music Awards, Smithsonian magazine’s American Ingenuity Awards, and the Soul Train Music Awards.
