My family all got together and said, you know, "We will not just settle for you telling us that he's passed" - and believe it or not, my mother's cousins went in the middle of the night and they went and saved him. They basically just kind of left him for dead, assuming that he had died, because most people did die. Well, it's a really long story, but my grandfather was actually a miner, and there was a big explosion that happened a lot of people really tragically died.
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And there was a series of really, really awful events, to where essentially, in the middle of the night, they got pushed out of town. And they built their home there, their family life there, they were really grounded there. Solange Knowles: So, New Iberia is where my maternal grandparents are from. And you wrote some of it in a place in Louisiana called New Iberia, which sort of taps into all these threads.
Microphone Check Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance MovesĪri Shapiro: This album seems to reach into a lot of history: There's personal history, there's family history, there's national history. Read an edited transcript of their conversation below hear an abridged version at the audio link. Solange shared stories about her family and about the healing process of making A Seat At The Table with NPR's Ari Shapiro. "I wanted to be able to go back as a descendant of my grandparents and stake my claim and create work that honored them." "I wanted to reclaim that space," she says. The album includes interviews she conducted with her parents, and she wrote most of the lyrics in the town of New Iberia, La., where her family has roots. This is Solange's most personal work yet, too. The songs in this album celebrate black culture, confront prejudice and explore the trauma of witnessing black people killed.
On the record, Solange explores what it means to be black in America today. Solange Knowles' newest album, A Seat At The Table, is her most commercially successful yet - it hit No. "And it's an honor to be able to have a seat at our table and for us to open up in this way." "I'm inviting you to have a seat at my table," Solange says.
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