Big Freedia isn’t feeling well on the day of our interview. A rigorous travel schedule promoting her first studio album in nine years has taken its toll on her shoulder, which gives her problems from ...
Big Freedia went back to college Monday and staged a “Celebration.” In 2022, the Queen of Bounce attended classes at Texas Southern University for the BET reality series “College Hill: Celebrity ...
Big Freedia may be best known as the queen of bounce music, a New Orleans icon, and the standout feature on Beyonce's "Break My Soul." For now, anyway. With her new album, Pressing Onward, she just ...
Videos of parents dancing with their children to a remixed version of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” have flooded social media, thanks to a popular children’s educational YouTube series started by a Black ...
Big Freedia's new holiday EP, A Very Big Freedia Christmazz, is out now. On major holidays, most of America spends its night in, digesting a festive meal and interacting with loved ones at varying ...
It was around the late '80s going into the '90s when I discovered Little Richard, and it definitely was from seeing him on TV. He seemed like he was someone that I could connect with because it seemed ...
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Big Freedia about her new album, "Pressing Onward," and how her childhood singing in the church led her to this... Big Freedia takes bounce music to church on new album, ...
Ari Shapiro has been one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's flagship afternoon newsmagazine, since 2015. He has been a question on Jeopardy and an answer in the New York Times crossword ...