Pulitzer Prize for Music

Iconic Grammy Award-Winning DJ Producer and Rapper Kid Capri Celebrates 55th Birthday with New Album The Love Available Today

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Monday, February 7, 2022

NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Today, on his 55th birthday, Legendary DJ producer and rapper Kid Capri releases 3rd studio album, THE LOVE.

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  • NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Today, on his 55th birthday, Legendary DJ producer and rapper Kid Capri releases 3rd studio album, THE LOVE.
  • The 19-track album is written, produced, and performed by Kid Capri and includes popular singles Uptown featuring his daughter, Vina Love, and Slap Key released in October 2021.
  • A meticulous studio-scientist himself, Kid Capri produced tracks for A-listers Snoop Dogg, Madonna, Heavy D, and 50 Cent to name a few.
  • In 2018, Kid Capri narrated Kendrick Lamar's "Damn;" the only hip hop album to win a Pulitzer Prize.

Iconic Grammy Award-Winning DJ Producer and Rapper Kid Capri Releases New Single and Video Uptown Featuring Daughter Vina Love Available Today

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Friday, January 28, 2022

NEW YORK, Jan. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Legendary DJ producer and rapper Kid Capri releases party anthem single and video, Uptown featuring his daughter, emerging R&B artist Vina Love available today.

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  • NEW YORK, Jan. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Legendary DJ producer and rapper Kid Capri releases party anthem single and video, Uptown featuring his daughter, emerging R&B artist Vina Love available today.
  • Kid Capri's third studio album, THE LOVE is available February 7 on all streaming platforms.
  • The 19-song album, written, produced, and performed by Kid Capri includes current single, Slap Key released in October 2021.
  • A meticulous studio-scientist himself, Kid Capri produced tracks for A-listers Snoop Dogg, Madonna, Heavy D, and 50 Cent to name a few.

Climate change-inspired piece wins Grawemeyer music award

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Monday, December 2, 2019

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --Chinese-American composer Lei Liang has won the 2020 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for an orchestral work evoking the threat posed by climate change and the opportunity it offers for redemption.

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  • LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --Chinese-American composer Lei Liang has won the 2020 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for an orchestral work evoking the threat posed by climate change and the opportunity it offers for redemption.
  • The half-hour piece takes listeners on a journey through a virtual landscape that first sings and dances but later jolts and collapses into fragments.
  • "Xiaoxiang," his concerto for saxophone and orchestra, was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2015.
  • "Liang's piece, which explores a huge range of emotions and ends with both hope and ambiguity, has a forceful, convincing arc and wonderful orchestral colors," said Marc Satterwhite, music award director.