Harpist Brandee Younger has spent fifteen years stretching boundaries both sonic and social by playing jazz, R&B and hip hop on the classical instrument and unearthing the underrepresented legacies of Black women harpists like Dorothy Ashby.
Born in Hempstead, NY, Younger discovered harp through a sample of Ashby used by rapper and producer Pete Rock. Seeing herself represented, Younger delv…