Sense of Place: How American singer Davina Robinson found the blues in Osaka : World Cafe : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast : NPR
NPRSense of Place: How American singer Davina Robinson found the blues in Osaka Enlarge this image toggle caption Kimberly Junod/WXPN Kimberly Junod/WXPN Set List "Big Butt Woman" "Like a Woman" "Osaka Boys" "Freak in Me" The United States may be the birthplace of the blues, but Philadelphia-born blues singer Davina Robinson found them somewhere far, far away from the U.S., in Japan. Robinson launched her music career after moving to Osaka, where she found an unexpected community of jazz and blues musicians. Since then, she's released an album, several singles, and won the U.K. Songwriting Contest in the blues category in 2020. In this installment of our Sense of Place: Japan series, Robinson talks about finding that community and her voice in Osaka; about her experience performing and living there as a Black American woman; and how she has navigated the music scene in a country so different from where she grew up.
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