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Series 1: 2. Crooners & Co
Soul and jazz star Gregory Porter explores the soft, intimate art of crooning. Born with the arrival of the microphone in the 1930s, crooning was initially about men seducing women and thrived through signature stars like Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra.\n\nBut far from disappearing with the advent of rock 'n' roll, the art of crooning gained a new existential edge and was transformed by the likes of Roy Orbison, David Bowie and even Lana Del Rey into a haunting and abiding strain of contemporary pop.\n\nWith Iggy Pop, Joshua Homme, George Benson and Beck.
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Most recent episodes of Gregory Porter's Popular Voices
Gregory Porter's Popular Voices
Series 1: 1. Showstoppers
Gregory Porter explores 100 years of voices on the brink, those that go one note higher, turn it up to eleven and make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end. \n\nStart ...
27-05-2022
BBC 4
Gregory Porter's Popular Voices
Series 1: 3. Truth Tellers
Gregory examines how early 20th-century blues growlers like Bessie Smith paved the way for the rhyme and flow of hip hop, how truth became a quest of rock 'n' roll's greatest po ...
30-07-2021
BBC 4
Gregory Porter's Popular Voices
Series 1: 2. Crooners & Co
Soul and jazz star Gregory Porter explores the soft, intimate art of crooning. Born with the arrival of the microphone in the 1930s, crooning was initially about men seducing wo ...
23-07-2021
BBC 4
Most popular episodes of Gregory Porter's Popular Voices
Gregory Porter's Popular Voices
Series 1: 3. Truth Tellers
Gregory examines how early 20th-century blues growlers like Bessie Smith paved the way for the rhyme and flow of hip hop, how truth became a quest of rock 'n' roll's greatest po ...
30-07-2021
BBC 4
Gregory Porter's Popular Voices
Series 1: 2. Crooners & Co
Soul and jazz star Gregory Porter explores the soft, intimate art of crooning. Born with the arrival of the microphone in the 1930s, crooning was initially about men seducing wo ...
23-07-2021
BBC 4
Gregory Porter's Popular Voices
Series 1: 1. Showstoppers
Gregory Porter explores 100 years of voices on the brink, those that go one note higher, turn it up to eleven and make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end. \n\nStart ...
27-05-2022
BBC 4