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Watch Esperanza Spalding Sing "City of Roses"

Spalding performs her Grammy award-winning song with co-arranger and mentor Thara Memory.

Aired 02/11/2013 | Rating NR

Oregon Art Beat

Watch Esperanza Spalding Sing "City of Roses"

Clip: Season 14 | 5m 5s

Spalding performs her Grammy award-winning song with co-arranger and mentor Thara Memory.

The Portland native sings her Grammy award-winning song at a 2012 benefit concert for the American Music Program. Spalding and her co-arranger and mentor Thara Memory won Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists for the song, which is on her album "Radio Music Society."

Aired 02/11/2013 | Rating NR

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