Soul Sisters was thrilled to welcome Golden Globe-winner and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend creator Rachel Bloom into the Chord Club for a brief respite from awards campaigning ("If you want an Emmy, you campaign. So we're doing that. Give us an Emmy," she deadpanned) to chat about this phenomenal first year she's had as musical showrunner and slyly feminist firebrand.

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"I never really wrote songs until I got my heart broken, and then I sat by the piano and I started playing some chords," Jessica Maros tells us in this episode of Soul Sisters in which the singer/songwriter (and half of the desert rock duo Escondido) tells us how, as the daughter of Slovakian immigrants growing up in Vancouver, she came to hold such a formidable place in the Nashville music scene.

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Legendary Broadway star Chita Rivera tells us what it was like starring in the original Broadway production of West Side Story and shares her secret to remaining such a vivacious performer almost sixty years later!

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Leyla McCalla was playing music on a street corner in New Orleans when the manager of the Carolina Chocolate Drops approached her about joining their band. "Within a few months I’m in Nashville at Buddy Miller’s studio recording on Leaving Eden, which was their second Grammy-nominated album," she recalls, still in disbelief, on this episode of Soul Sisters recorded at NYC's Chord Club.

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Many would be shocked to learn that the red hot sax player in Stephen Colbert's house band is only 23 years old - though Grace Kelly's list of accomplishments is already enough to rival many a veteran.

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"Maybe I just have had enough," says Bethany Cosentino, frontwoman of the California band Best Coast and all-around feminist badass to anyone who's been paying attention to women's issues in the music industry this past year.

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"One of my favorite things about music is that you can exist as a relatively introverted, quiet, reserved person and then you can hear music or play music and totally step outside of yourself, and all of your inhibitions fall to the wayside," Sleigh Bells singer Alexis Krauss tells us about her experience fronting a band that has defined the modern "noise pop" genre.

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We’ve long known that Ana Gasteyer is great at playing musicians – but many would be surprised to know that the former Saturday Night Live star is a pretty damn good one herself.

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When Joan Osborne became an overnight sensation with her ubiquitous hit “One of Us” in 1995, no one was less prepared than her. “On the one hand I was really excited to get that kind of recognition,” she says on this episode of Soul Sisters, while admitting that “it was also really difficult just personally” with strangers following her down the street after recognizing her from the song’s music video that played in heavy MTV rotation.

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In the Magic Hour is the name of bluegrass darling Aoife O'Donovan's new album, and also an apt description of what it felt like chatting with her on this episode of Soul Sisters. Well-known as leading vocalist in the band Crooked Still and her part in the Grammy-winning Goat Rodeo Sessions album, O'Donovan is now thriving in a solo career that finds her harnessing her immense musical talents that first revealed themselves when she knew, at the age of five, that she wanted to be a musician.

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