A Big Freedia show is typically a twerk-a-thon of booty-bouncing dancers. But throughout the 2025 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, fans have seen a different side of the Queen of Bounce. This ...

Big Freedia may be best known as the queen of bounce music, a New Orleans icon, and the standout feature on Beyonce's "Break My Soul." For now, anyway. With her new album, Pressing Onward, she just ...

At first blush, the mere idea of a Big Freedia gospel album sounds like musical Mad Libs. After all, Freedia is the queen of New Orleans bounce music, an ass-shaking, party-starting hip-hop dynamo; ...

Big Freedia is known as the Queen of Bounce, but her latest album provided an opportunity to try something completely different: gospel. “If you didn't know, the Queen of Bounce started in gospel. I ...

"Big Freedia Means Business" is back for Season 2 and this time we'll follow Big Freedia as she embarks on her first gospel music album. Despite criticism and skepticism from her team, Freedia accepts ...

The New Orleans musician known for party-starting rapping chats about healing through song, and the TV, movies and boots that keep her stomping ahead. By Ross Scarano ...

Mikala is a staff photojournalist at The Austin American-Statesman in Austin, Texas. She previously served as the chief of photography at the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung, where Headliners Foundation ...

The Stellars are heralded as the first gospel music awards show in the country that honors gospel artists, writers and industry professionals. This year, the annual show celebrated its 39th year, ...

Ari Shapiro has been one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's flagship afternoon newsmagazine, since 2015. He has been a question on Jeopardy and an answer in the New York Times crossword ...

Big Freedia is known as the Queen of Bounce, but her latest album provided an opportunity to try something completely different: gospel. "If you didn't know, the Queen of Bounce started in gospel. I ...

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