Helga Davis
WQXR Host
Helga Davis
Vocalist and performance artist Helga Davis mixes rock, jazz, soul, and funk to create her own unique brand of music that defies boundaries.
From her early days with Greg Tate’s band Women in Love to her role as Hilarion in the Robert Wilson/Bernice Johnson Reagon staging of Flaubert’s The Temptation of St. Anthony, Davis has made artistic choices that push boundaries and draw her listeners into ecstatic exploration with her. She has hosted Overnight Music since 2007.
Helga Davis appears in the following:
On-Demand Webcast from the Temple of Dendur
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
The Wordless Music Orchestra marked the 9/11 anniversary at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sunday with a reflective program of Schnittke, Golijov, Ingram Marshall and William Basinski. Listen to the full concert here.
Signs of the Times
Monday, November 22, 2010
I finally know what it is...
The birds are gone.
It was their song that welcomed me into each Spring day and the absence of their melodies has finally caught my attention.
A Little You, A Little Me
Monday, April 26, 2010
The streets of my Harlem village offer me the sights and sounds of the world. On my block alone, there’s a Mosque, a Baptist church, a Pentecostal church, a Masonic Temple, and The Church of Latter Day Saints right there on Lenox Avenue. The Senegalese drummers wake me at dawn each Monday morning with their dance, and their offerings give rise to the incense vendors who pause five times a day and offer the most beautiful music through the hum of traffic and cries of the sliced mango vendors from Mexico.
