Grammy-winning banjo player and singer Rhiannon Giddens just had her first opera debut. It's called Omar and it tells the story of a 19th-century Senegalese slave named Omar ibn Said. Giddens joined Tom Power to talk about this new work and how she hopes her music can change false narratives in American history.
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Негізгі бет Rhiannon Giddens on the real story of an enslaved Islamic scholar that inspired her first opera
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