Esperanza Spalding was the winner of the Grammy Award for Best New Artist on Sunday night. For many, especially Justin Bieber fans her win was a big surprise, to the point where Bieber fans hijacked her Wikipedia page with a barrage of insults and nasty comments. To be nominated for the award was a big surprise even to Esperanza Spalding;
“I certainly did not expect to even be considered for that type of nomination, me being a little old jazz musician and everything.”
Esperanza Spalding grew up in Portland, Oregon and at 26 she is already an accomplished jazz musician. Next she will be supporting Prince for his tour “Welcome 2 America” which starts later this month. She has been quoted referring to Prince as “a dear friend”. She is currently writing the music for a new album which is going to be called ‘Radio Music Society’ and is set to be released late 2011.
