Rhiannon Giddens is an American musician renowned for her inventive approach to folk, country, blues, and old-time music. Hailing from Greensboro, North Carolina, she first rose to prominence as the lead singer, fiddle player, and banjo player for the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops. Beyond her band work, Giddens has released several acclaimed solo albums, including Tomorrow Is My Turn, Freedom Highway, and You're the One, as well as two collaborations with Italian musician Francesco Turrisi. She contributed to the T Bone Burnett project The New Basement Tapes, setting Bob Dylan’s unused lyrics to music, and appeared in the Smithsonian Folkways' documentary collection about Appalachian music. Giddens also created music for the video game Red Dead Redemption 2. In 2023, the opera Omar, which she co-wrote with Michael Abels, won the Pulitzer Prize for Music.