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 ...

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Big Freedia is known as the Queen of Bounce, but her latest album provided an opportunity to try something completely different: gospel. “If you didn't know, the Queen of Bounce started in gospel. I ...

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 ...

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, ...