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Raye Zaragoza's Hold That Spirit is an album rooted in this realization. The Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter has always made political folk music that is informed by her identity as a woman of mixed Indigenous, Asian and Latina heritage. She gained recognition in 2016 with "In The River," which was written to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline. When she performed a Tiny Desk Concert at NPR, she spoke and sang about making live music more economically accessible. And, she currently writes the music for Netflix's Spirit Rangers, a show featuring an all Native American writers room and cast. A feminist undercurrent unifies these songs. Meditative folk ballad "Strong Woman" was written as a commission for a friend's daughter, but also more broadly celebrates a world led and built by women. "Not A Monster" candidly addresses Zaragoza's eating disorder. And "Garden" grapples with all the unfair expectations placed on women as they age.
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