Contemplations from a concerned outsider.
Singer Leyla McCalla found her musical destination ‘midway’ between the place where she was born (American metropolis New York) and the country of her ancestors (Haiti), in the ‘deep south’ of the United States. She attracted attention with a guest appearance with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, but she owes her real breakthrough to Vari-Colored Songs, a personal tribute to the black American poet Langston Hughes. McCalla recently presented her third album Capitalist Blues, on which she fiercely strikes out at the ‘blessings’ of the capitalist society but does so with a smile and with a groove. The coming weeks she will be performing in the Netherlands and in Belgium with concerts at the following venues.
