Soul Sisters

The daughter of a Bob Seger saxophonist and a Playboy bunny was bound to have an interesting life, one way or another. But singer-songwriter Victoria Reed carved out a path uniquely her own, a journey that she describes in revealing detail on this episode of Soul Sisters. With her stunning debut album Chariot just out and an international tour under her belt, Reed looks back on a childhood that included a famous father, a family psychic, a near-miss becoming a Disney star and a philosophy study that drove her into an existential breakdown that gave her all the material she would need as an artist.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jazz phenom Cécile McLorin Salvant sat down with Soul Sisters a week before flying out to Los Angeles for the Grammy Awards, where she was nominated for - and would win - Best Jazz Vocal Album, for her latest LP For One to Love.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Early into this episode of Soul Sisters, Brandy remarks on the "hundred thousand butterflies" she feels when we remind her of how much success she's had, on the Billboard charts and beyond, in her 20-plus year career as an entertainer. From her lightning hot debut album that she put out when she was only 15, to her Grammy win for the best-selling female duet of all time "The Boy Is Mine," to her legendary work with Whitney Houston in Cinderella and her starring role on Moesha, Brandy has been an inspirational figure for as long as most people under 40 can remember.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Soul Sisters was thrilled to join Amy Ray and Emily Saliers of the iconic power duo Indigo Girls before their sold-out show at New Jersey's Wellmont Theater, where swarms of fans had come from across the east coast to hear the harmonious voices that defined many a '90s adolescence (and continue to do so with new generations, their sixteenth studio album out just last year). From "Closer to Fine" to "Galileo," "Power of Two" to "Ghost," Indigo Girls possess a certain symbolic place in our cultural minds - for better or worse, as Ray and Saliers are very quick to address.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Grammy-winning blues musician Susan Tedeschi shares her story of how a blue-eyed, blonde-haired girl from Massachusetts came to possess one of the most respected voices of anyone in her genre (B.B. King counts as but one of her many famous fans.) Throughout the episode Tedeschi returns again and again to what it means to be a successful woman in her business – from leading her own band as it grew from three people to twelve, to the strong camaraderie she found with fellow artists like the Indigo Girls and Sheryl Crow during Lilith Fair, to the motivation that naysayers unwittingly fueled her with to succeed. And to top it all off, Tedeschi closes the episode with a live performance of the title track “Let Me Get By” off the new album by the Tedeschi Trucks Band, which she founded with her husband, guitar prodigy and Allman Brothers alumnus Derek Trucks.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.