Season Two Of Santigold's 'Noble Champions' Podcast Has Premiered

 The podcast's title -- Noble Champions -- is inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, who was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Kandinsky once said that periods during which art has no noble champions are ones of retrogression. On her podcast, Santigold and "fellow champions" try to make sense out of our world, and push culture forward.

Last week, the second season of Santigold’s podcast Noble Champions launched. "In each bi-weekly episode, she sits down with some of today’s leading artists, authors, activists, and progressive thinkers who stand up, stick up and speak up for important causes."

Noble Champions exposes listeners to these candid no-holds-barred roundtable conversations where ideas and experiences are exchanged.

Philadelphia-born Santi White is known professionally as Santigold, an American singer and songwriter. She obtained her pseudonym in the 1990s after a friend gave it to her as a nickname

In 2008, Santigold's self-titled debut album has been credited as a catalyst for the cross-genre sound of contemporary pop music. In 2022, Santigold released her album Spirituals as a multi-sensory experience with a corresponding line of teas whose ingredients speak to the record’s themes and a series of video vignettes.

Santigold's goal is to try to make some sense out of our world, to push culture forward. Boundary-expanding and defiantly vulnerable, Noble Champions is a public invitation to an intimate gathering of the minds. The second season features: Shailene Woodley, Flea, Seun Kuti, Vince Staples, Wyatt Cenac, Rep. Maxwell Frost, Adesuwa Aighewi, Syd, Terence Nance, Kiese Laymon and more.

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Episode 1 with John Jennings and Terence Nance is a discussion about afrofuturism and how, at a time when the world is in such a precarious place, art that envisions a better future is crucial. To tackle this subject, Santi sits down with best-selling writer, illustrator and academic John Jennings and artist, filmmaker and musician Terence Nance (creator of HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness), as they discuss rituals, the tools of imagining, deindustrializing oneself, time as a nonlinear construct, and much more.

The forthcoming episode 2 with Shailene Woodley and Odille Zexter-Kaiser looks at how we can disconnect from technology as a way of connecting more with our inner selves and others. Joining her in this discussion are Shailene Woodley, an actor and activist who is an ardent advocate for living a tech-free lifestyle, and Odille Zexter-Kaiser, a former member of the Luddite Club, a group of New York City high school students who intentionally limited their use of technology in order to live in a more grounded, tangible reality.

The complete first season of Noble Champions features guests: Tunde Adebimpe, Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def), Sanford Biggers, Bun B, Idris Elba, Mary Anais Heglar, Dan Kovalik, Resmaa Menakem, Questlove, Rebecca Walker, Olivia Wilde, Saul Williams, and Angela Yee.

Check out Noble Champions with Santigold. She's a solid interviewer with a lot of on her mind, and the curiosity to find out what her guests are thinking.