Laura Mvula celebrates Lauryn Hill’s R&B classic
In 7digital’s new BBC audio documentary, singer Laura Mvula takes a personal look at the importance of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
Like other 21st century stars, including Beyoncé, Adele and Kendrick Lamar, Laura cites Lauryn Hill’s 1998 debut album as a massive influence. She remembers buying it as a teenager in Birmingham and reflects on the impact it had on her then, and since.
“The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was the first album that I inhaled, and when I inhale something, it permeates all of me.”
In ‘Everything is Everything: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill at 25’, Mvula discusses the celebrated record’s hit singles, themes and interludes, and hears interpretations and analysis by professors Lauren Leigh Kelly and Alexis McGee.
Laura also chats to Lianne La Havas, Afrodeutsche and music journalist Jasmine Dotiwala, as she builds a deeper understanding of a neo soul album that became a lasting force in pop culture.
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