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Leyla McCalla

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About the artist

Leyla McCalla (born Leyla Sarah McCalla in New York City on 3 October 1985) is an Haitian-American classical and folk musician. She was a cellist with the Grammy-winning string band Carolina Chocolate Drops, leaving to focus on her solo career. McCalla sings in French, Haitian Creole and English, and plays cello, tenor banjo and guitar. Her music is influenced by traditional Creole, Cajun and Haitian music, as well as by American jazz and folk.

Top songs

  1. The Capitalist Blues
  2. Little sparrow
  3. A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey
  4. Money Is King
  5. Mesi Bondye
  6. Heart of Gold
  7. Fort Dimanche
  8. Lavi Vye Neg
  9. Dodinin
  10. Vini Wè
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  1. Scaled to Survive
  2. You Don’t Know Me
  3. When I Can See the Valley
  4. Song for a Dark Girl
  5. Sun Without the Heat
  6. Mèsi Bondye
  7. Rose Marie
  8. Peze café
  9. Nan Fon Bwa
  10. Changing Tide
  11. Girl
  12. Manman Mwen
  13. Kamèn Sa W Fè?
  14. Heavy As Lead
  15. Me and My Baby
  16. Open the Road
  17. Love Again Blues
  18. Far from Your Web
  19. Manman
  20. Le Bal est FIni
  21. Ain't No Use
  22. Bon Appétit Messieurs
  23. Penha
  24. Too Blue
  25. Latibonit
  26. Mize Pa Dous
  27. Aleppo
  28. Take Me Away
  29. Dan Reken
  30. Let it fall
  31. Tree
  32. Fey-O
  33. Les Plats Sont Tous Mis Sur La Table
  34. Lonely House
  35. Oh My Love
  36. Search
  37. Love We Had
  38. Ekzile
  39. Pouki
  40. Memory Song
  41. So I'll Go
  42. Settle Down
  43. Freedom Is A Constant Struggle
  44. Jean and Michèle
  45. Artibonite
  46. Vietnam
  47. Bluerunner
  48. Boukman's Prayer
  49. Salangadou
  50. Give Yourself a Break
  51. Tower
  52. Minis Azaka
  53. I Want to Believe
  54. Manman (feat. Rhiannon Giddens)
  55. Small Towns (Are Smaller for Girls)
  56. Far from your web (feat. Aurora Nealand)
  57. Peze Café (feat. Marc Ribot, Louis Michot & Aurora Nealand)
  58. Les plats sont tous mis sur la table (feat. Louis Michot)
  59. Salangadou (feat. Sarah Quintana)
  60. Vietnam (feat. Sabine Mccalla)
  61. Fey-O (feat. Shaye Cohn)
  62. Bluerunner (feat. Louis Michot)
  63. Eh la Bas
  64. Minis Azaka (feat. Shaye Cohn)
  65. Crown
  66. Zanj
  67. Too Blue 
  68. As I Grew Older / Dreamer
  69. You Don't Know Me
  70. Still Looking
  71. Kamen sa w fe?
  72. PEZE CAFE
  73. Peze Cafe (Feat. Marc Ribot, Louis Michot & Aurora Nealand)
  74. Vini We
  75. La Coulée Rodair
  76. Bal Est Fini (Live)
  77. FEY O
  78. Open The Road (Live)
  79. Bluerunner (Instrumental)
  80. So I'll Go (Live)
  81. Stage banter 2 (Live)
  82. Orphelin (Live)
  83. Stage banter 1 (Live)
  84. Take Me Away (Live)
  85. Scaled To Survive (Live)
  86. Manman Mwen (feat. Rhiannon Giddens)
  87. R. Gukman (Live)
  88. Tree (Live)
  89. Love We Had (Live)
  90. Watch That Star (Live)

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