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Younger wins 2024 NAACP Image Award

NAACP Image Award winner Brandee Younger

Harpist Brandee Younger wins a 2024 NAACP Image Award in the category of “Outstanding Jazz Album.” (Photo: Erin Patrice O'Brien)

March 15, 2024

Harpist Brandee Younger is the recipient of a 2024 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Image Award in the category of “Outstanding Jazz Album” for Brand New Life. Younger says she is honored to win the award. “I’m so grateful, and it’s feeling extra special right now, having finally just performed this album for the very first time live,” she says.

Learn more about Younger on her website. Check out our cover interview with her in the January/February 2021 issue of Harp Column.

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