Leyla McCalla released her first solo album, Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes, in 2014. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks her about its re-release and the new song included on it. At 35, ...
One of my favorite aspects of this soulful debut album is Leyla McCalla’s athletic pizzicato/strumming technique on the cello. Not that she can’t use a bow: after getting her music degree, the New ...
At 35, Leyla McCalla is already known as a groundbreaking talent. She was a founding member of Our Native Daughters and a cellist for the Grammy Award-winning folk group Carolina Chocolate Drops. But ...