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Kat Pearson (Kat & Co) is back with a new solo album which focuses on her afro-american origins
MY ROOTS is a work full of memories from the past and stories about her family. It all started in the cotton fields of rural Tennessee where her ancestors, newly freed slaves originally from Africa, had to jump on the Labour’s Train to look for work. And then escaping racial discrimination the grandparents relocated to Oklahoma working as sharecroppers, until finally her parents moved to Long Beach (LA) at the time of the Civil Rights Riots. Kat still remembers her family sitting around the turntable to listen to the words of Martin Luther King Jr. on a vinyl still in her possession
MY ROOTS was recorded live on March 6, 2019 at Resident Studio London by Francesco Accurso, long time associate and partner at Kat&Co Music, who also takes guitar and mixing duties. It also features the Marco Marzola Jazz Trio on tour in the UK at the time, with Marco Marzola on double bass, Nico Menci on piano and Lele Barbieri on the drums