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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."
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Watch Esperanza Spalding Sing "City of Roses"
Clip: Season 14 | 5m 5s
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."
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