Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Esperanza Spalding's America

NPR Music

Grammy-Award winning musician Esperanza Spalding talks with NPR's Celeste Headlee about her new recording, 'We are America.' Spalding's song and video demand congressional action to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. "Part of the message of the song is, 'This is not our America. We are America. I am America. Esperanza Spalding is America. And all the people in this video are America, and no, we don't condone this behavior, and we don't want it anymore."

KUER is listener-supported public radio. Support this work by making a donation today.