As Meshell describes, this album is “a dedication to Nina Simone and her incredible influence but it is also a dedication to the single, interior life we all experience.” Revered by Meshell, Nina ...

Meshell Ndegeocello is the inaugural winner of Best Alternative Jazz Album at the 2024 Grammys. The Omnichord Real Book was nominated alongside Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily’s Love in ...

Meshell Ndegéocello was mixing conscious lyrics, hip-hop aesthetics and neo-soul vocal stylings long before Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu or Jill Scott. Way back in 1993, her Plantation Lullabies drew the ...

In 2016, Meshell Ndegeocello debuted one of the most ambitious and compelling works of her storied career at the historic Harlem Stage Gatehouse in New ...

This Black Music Month, Tiny Desk is giving the ladies their flowers. We’re releasing nine Tiny Desk concerts from Black women artists, from veterans who’ve paved the way for what we hear today in ...

Ndegeocello returns Oct. 9 with Pour Une Ame Souveraine ("For a Sovereign Soul"). It's one of her many creative hairpin turns: a tribute to one of her clearest spiritual forebears, Nina Simone, who ...

Meshell Ndegeocello isn’t a fan of modern R&B: “I find myself not being able to listen to a lot of [it],” she recently told Billboard, “just because of the vibration it gives off.” Little wonder then ...

Meshell Ndegeocello brings the power of reflection and gratitude to NPR‘s Tiny Desk. On Tuesday, the musician visited NPR to perform songs from her upcoming August, No More Water: The Gospel of James ...

Celebrated singer-songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello is back with a new song, “Virgo.” The single will appear on her first album of all new material in nearly a decade, The Omnichord Real Book, out June ...

20 years, 11 albums and 10 Grammy nominations later, Meshell Ndegeocello honors the past and looks to the future with her latest musical pursuits. Meshell Ndegeocello has worked with just about ...