11.25.2020

Seven Siblings Create Music Together in Lockdown

In 2017, Sheku Kanneh-Mason shot to fame playing the cello at Harry and Meghan’s Windsor Castle wedding. But he is not alone in his talents; in fact, he’s one of seven musical siblings. Together they have just released their first joint album, “Carnival of the Animals.” Four members of this unusually musical family join the show to discuss their creative collaboration during lockdown.

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K. KANNEH-MASON, MUSICIAN: Yes, I think music is one of those extraordinary things that can speak to everyone but especially in times of pain, and especially when in terms of suffering and great difficulty. And I think what’s been extremely meeting and extremely interesting is that over the lockdown, so many people have turned to the arts to film to watching theaters online to listening to lots of music, and that’s certainly what got us through it. I think that’s what’s got so many people through and I think that is that is the extreme power of music.

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: OK. So we are going to basically say goodbye to you. We’re going to, you know, leave you all by playing from your latest album, and we’re going to play the “Seal Lullaby” and that is from Eric Whitacre’s “Lullaby.” And all of the seven of you are playing on that. And so, thanks for letting us play this on the air. And as we say goodbye and listening to this. We want to say to everybody who will be celebrating Thanksgiving in the next day and over this next weekend, to please have a very good but very safe Thanksgiving. And we leave you now with the “Seal Lullaby” by the Kanneh-Masons.

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Activist Leopoldo López discusses the Venezuelan opposition. Anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean discusses the federal executions scheduled in the final days of President Trump’s term. COVID crisis travel nurse Chelsea Walsh explains why nurses need more support from hospitals. Musical siblings Sheku, Braimah, Konya and Jeneba Kanneh-Mason discuss their creative process in lockdown.

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