Pierce Freelon

**Pierce Freelon** mawaƙin Amurka ne, malami, marubuci kuma ɗan siyasa. Shi mawaki ne na Grammy wanda aka zaba kuma tsohon memba na majalisar Durham City. Freelon shine wanda ya kafa Blackspace,  Afrofuturist dijital makerspace. Shi ne wanda ya kafa Beat Yin Lab ya zama Emmy Award wanda ya lashe lambar yabo ta PBS. Shi ne babban darektan, marubuci, kuma mawaƙin The History of White People in America, wani jerin rayayye na PBS.

Freelon ya koyar a sassan Afirka, Ba-Amurke da Nazarin Kiɗa da Kiɗa a UNC-Chapel Hill da Sashen Kimiyyar Siyasa a Jami'ar North Carolina ta Tsakiya. Shi tsohon memba ne na kwamitin fasaha na North Carolina Arts Council.

## Sana'a

### Malamin Waka
A matsayinsa na dalibi a Jami'ar North Carolina a Chapel Hill, Freelon ya kirkiro tsarin karatun Hip-Hop kuma ya gabatar da shi ga makarantu sama da 100 da cibiyoyin al'umma na duniya. Bayan kammala karatunsa daga Jami'ar Syracuse, Freelon ya haɓaka shirin Bebop zuwa Hip Hop don Cibiyar Thelonious Monk na Jazz (yanzu Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz). Shi ne wanda ya kafa Beat Making Lab, jerin gidan yanar gizo na PBS, wanda ya ci Mafi kyawun Bidiyo na Essay don shirin sa na Heartbeats na Fiji a 2015 Daytime Emmy Awards. Tsarin karatunsa da rubuce-rubucen tallafi sun haifar da haɓaka matakin gaba - haɗin gwiwar miliyoyin daloli tsakanin UNC Chapel Hill da Ma'aikatar Harkokin Wajen Amurka, suna koyar da diflomasiyya na hip hop da warware rikici. Freelon ya yi aiki a kan ayyukan kiɗa da ayyukan adalci na duniya a cikin Jamhuriyar Demokradiyyar Kongo, Jamhuriyar Dominican, Habasha, Fiji, Ghana, Kenya, Panama, Senegal da Afirka ta Kudu, tare da abokan haɗin gwiwar da suka hada da Gidan Tarihi na Gidan Tarihi na Afirka na zamani, (MoCADA), IntraHealth International, / Dokokin, Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, Global Voices da Majalisar Dinkin Duniya Foundation.

## Aikin kiɗa
Pierce Freelon ya yi aiki kuma ya yi karatu a duniya tare da Nnenna Freelon, Herbie Hancock, Bob James, Earl Klugh da Patti Austin. Ya fito a cikin sautin sauti na Black Candle tare da Robert Glasper, Chris Dave da Derrick Hodge. Ya kuma fito a kundin Nnenna Freelon, Home Free kuma ya yi tare da mawakan hip-hop kamar Doug E. Fresh, Grand Master Flash, The Last Poets da Dead Prez. Shi ne ɗan wasan gaba na ƙungiyar jazz da hip hop The Beast,  wanda ya fitar da kundi da yawa da EPs.

Pierce Freelon ya fito da kundin kiɗan kiɗan na Yara na D.a.D don yabo mai mahimmanci a cikin 2020, yana fitowa akan NPR da Nunin Yau. Kundin sa na biyu mai mayar da hankali kan dangi Black to the Future an nuna shi akan Billboard, MSNBC, da Edition na Morning na NPR. An zabi Black to the Future don Mafi kyawun Kundin Kiɗa na Yara a Kyautar Grammy na 2022, a wannan shekarar ce aka zaɓi mahaifiyarsa Nnenna Freelon album ɗin Time Traveler don Mafi kyawun Album na Jazz - yin tarihin Kwalejin Recording a matsayin uwa da ɗa na farko da aka zaɓa don gramophones na zinariya a fagage daban-daban a lambar yabo ta Grammy iri ɗaya.

## Siyasa
Pierce Freelon ya tsaya takarar magajin garin Durham a shekarar 2017. Dan takara na farko, ya samu kashi 16% na kuri’un amma ya fadi zaben fidda gwani. Freelon ya yi takarar kujerar Majalisar Dattijai ta North Carolina 20 a cikin 2020 inda ya sami kashi 37% na kuri'un amma ya zo na biyu a zaben fidda gwani na Democrat.

A ranar 31 ga Agusta, 2020, an nada Freelon don yin aiki a Majalisar Birni ta Durham a Ward 3. A cikin Nuwamba 2021, Freelon ya haɗu da almara na bisharar Durham kuma ɗan siyasa Shirley Ceaser a matsayin Memba na Majalisar Durham City Council na biyu da za a zaba don Kyautar Grammy. A karshen wa'adinsa, Freelon ya yanke shawarar kin sake tsayawa takara.

## Iyali
Pierce Freelon shi ne ɗan takarar Grammy Nnenna Freelon da kuma marigayi Philip Freelon, shugaban gine-gine na Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Freelon ya auri Katye Proctor Freelon, jikanyar marigayi Samuel DeWitt Proctor, tsohon shugaban Jami'ar A&T na jihar, ministan cocin Baptist na Abyssinian Baptist kuma aboki / mai ba da shawara ga Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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