Who is Cécile McLorin Salvant?
We were listening to folk music, some bluegrass. I could go on and on, actually. A lot of Brazilian music.
And that's all due to your mother.
She has a huge, wide ear and she traveled a lot in her childhood. And I think she brought back those travels in some way or that traveling sort of feeling.
Where did she grow up?
She grew up in Tunisia. She lived throughout Africa. She lived in Senegal. She lived in Cuba. She lived in Dominican Republic. She lived in Honduras, in Haiti.
And what was the lingua franca at home, English, French, or both?
Franca. It was franca. It was French. It was French at home.
Yeah. From what I understand, in fact, from a profile in The New Yorker some years ago, there was a time when you were a kid, you thought you were going to study law.
Not so much when I was a kid. It was more after high school. I really didn't know what to do. And there was this political science prep school in this small town in France. My cousin was going. They had a law option, like first year law.
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