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Flor (Edition), vocalist Gretchen Parlato speaks to the personal transformation that inspired her career hiatus. (Photo: Lauren Desberg)
In 2014, Gretchen Parlato’s album Live In NYC earned her a Grammy nomination a crowning glory to a decade of career triumphs and then the singer-songwriter nearly dropped out of sight. Through the nine tracks on her new album,
Flor (Edition), Parlato speaks to the personal transformation that inspired this career hiatus. The origin of the
Flor project dates back to 2014, when Parlato collaborated with guitarist Marcel Camargo a friend since their days as ethnomusicology students at UCLA on his fully orchestrated, self-produced EP