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In ‘Beneath the Skin,’ jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon explores love, loss and reinvention

Durham-based jazz vocalist and storyteller has released a new album. is the first project in her 40-year career that is comprised of completely original songs. The concept album explores themes of love, grief and reinvention. Nnenna joins Due South in studio to talk about her experience writing and touring her new work. She also performs select songs from the album.

Guests

Nnenna Freelon, Grammy-nominated musician, storyteller and author, accompanied by guitarist Keith Ganz

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½'s "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Stacia L. Brown is a writer and audio storyteller who has worked in public media since 2016, when she partnered with the Association of Independents in Radio and Baltimore's WEAA 88.9 to create The Rise of Charm City, a narrative podcast that centered community oral histories. She has worked for WAMU’s daily news radio program, 1A, as well as ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½â€™s The State of Things. Stacia was a producer for ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½'s award-winning series, Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon and a co-creator of the station's first children's literacy podcast, The Story Stables. She served as a senior producer for two Ten Percent Happier podcasts, Childproof and More Than a Feeling. In early 2023, she was interim executive producer for WNYC’s The Takeaway.