SATURDAY 01 JANUARY 2022

SAT 00:06 BBC Correspondents' Look Ahead (w3ct2zvw)
What has 2022 got in store?

Razia Iqbal asks Andrew Harding, Katy Watson, Laura Trevelyan, Lyse Doucet and Yogita Limaye predict the key events and trends for 2022.

As the developed world recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, what are the risks for poorer countries – and will the global economic rebound continue? What chances are there for a dramatic breakthrough on the climate when world powers meet at Cop27 in Egypt? The American public will get their first chance for a verdict on the Biden administration in the mid-term elections – alongside a general election in Brazil, while France will choose its new president. How will this change our view of the world?

Producer: Ben Carte
Editor: Hugh Levinson


SAT 01:00 BBC News (w172xzjypgs1xvr)
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SAT 01:06 World Business Report (w172xzlx0wmnkw6)
Cocktail trends 2022

Our love for cocktails has surged during the pandemic. Nisha Patel speaks to mixologists and bar owners from all over the world to find out what's inspiring them and what concoctions we may see across global bar menus. Hanky Panky bar in Mexico says lockdown sent everyone back to their books and emerging are pairings inspired by cook books. Two Schmucks in Barcelona say the diversity of their staff has led to a range of cocktails you'd usually see in your main meal and cocktail aficionado Lynette Marrero shares how she's seen her cocktail masterclasses filled with customers who have a thirst for premium alcohol. Phil Tate from CGA strategy analyses cocktail trends worldwide and explains how the pandemic has influenced and changed the global cocktail trend, and how this will continue into 2022.

This programme is produced and presented by Nisha Patel

(PIC: Vodka with cranberry and grapefruit CREDIT: Getty)


SAT 01:30 BBC News Summary (w172xzks46cr944)
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SAT 01:32 WorklifeIndia (w3ct2f49)
How are India’s women entrepreneurs breaking through?

Many successful start-ups have been founded in India over the last decade, but a vast majority of them are led by men. While many Indian women have entrepreneurial ambitions, it is often more difficult for them to succeed. In fact, a recent study by the World Economic Forum says that worldwide, women entrepreneurs face a systemic lack of access to capital, credit, land, or financial products that prevent them from starting a company. There is also an unconscious bias and a lack of family support and child-care options, especially in India’s patriarchal society.

So what’s holding India's women entrepreneurs back, and what needs to be done to encourage more women to break through these barriers?

In this edition of WorklifeIndia, we discuss how India’s women leaders and businesswomen are breaking stereotypes and making a name for themselves.

Presenter: Devina Gupta
Contributors: Dimpy Dewan, co-founder, Hanchens; Mona Singh, venture capitalist, India Accelerator; Sairee Chahal, founder, SHEROES, Mahila Money; Rama Gupta, founder, Shrishti


SAT 02:00 BBC News (w172xzjypgs21lw)
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SAT 02:06 From Our Own Correspondent (w3ct1mvz)
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SAT 02:30 BBC News Summary (w172xzks46crdw8)
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SAT 02:32 Stumped (w3ct1lcl)
Is this the start of a golden era for Australian cricket?

Isabelle Westbury, Jim Maxwell and Charu Sharma discuss Australia winning the Men's Ashes in just twelve days and look at whether this is the start of a golden era for the country in both red and white ball cricket. They also ask who is to blame for England's defeat and how they can improve.

Charu Sharma has been watching the first Test match between South Africa and India and tells us who his stand out players have been, why India seem unable to convert starts to big scores and whether he thinks Test captain Virat Kohli will retire soon.

Plus the team are joined by England bowler Kate Cross to preview the Women's Ashes, tell us how their preparation has been impacted by Covid-19 and the excitement building within the camp.

Photo: Australia's captain Pat Cummins (C) leads his team on a lap of the ground after Australia won the match and retained the Ashes during the third day of the third Ashes cricket Test match in Melbourne on December 28, 2021. (Credit: HAMISH BLAIR/AFP via Getty Images)


SAT 03:00 BBC News (w172xzjypgs25c0)
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SAT 03:06 The Fifth Floor (w3ct20g2)
Iraq 2021

BBC Arabic journalist Murad Shishani spent several weeks this year reporting from Iraq. He visited Mosul, liberated four years ago from so-called Islamic State, to gauge the mood ahead of October's election. More recently, he covered the stories of migrants, from those repatriated from Belarus to those lost in the English Channel, and those still planning to make the hazardous journey.

Benin's royal treasures
This year saw a historic moment for the West African nation of Benin, when France handed back 26 royal treasures that were looted by colonial troops in 1892. BBC Afrique contributor Rachida Houssou, interpreted by Rose-Marie Bouboutou, describes the power, wealth and craftsmanship of the former Kingdom of Dahomey.

Karachi's dwindling Parsi community
The Sohrab Katrak Parsi colony in Karachi was built nearly a century ago by the local Parsi population, who played a huge role in the development of the city. But today the community is dwindling, with many houses falling into disrepair, as BBC Urdu’s Saher Baloch discovered.

Is housework work?
A landmark ruling in Kenya answered that question with a yes, when a judge recognised its value in the division of a couple’s property. Carolyne Kiambo from BBC Nairobi explains the detail of this case, and what it means for Kenyan women.

The Passengers of the Yomei Maru
Ilia Kizirov tells the story of his BBC Russian podcast series, The Passengers of the Yomei Maru, which follows the adventures of nearly 800 Russian children who had to flee the Civil War. They travelled around the world on a Japanese freighter before arriving home over two years later.

(Photo: Election banners in Mosul on sites destroyed in the liberation battle of 2017. Credit: BBC)


SAT 03:50 Witness History (w3ct1wzp)
The secret history of Monopoly

In 1904, a left-wing American feminist called Lizzy Magie patented a board game that evolved into what we now know as Monopoly. But 30 years later, when Monopoly was first marketed in the United States during the Great Depression, it was an out-of-work salesman from Pennsylvania who was credited with inventing it. Louise Hidalgo has been talking to American journalist Mary Pilon about the hidden history of one of the world's most popular board games, and to the economics professor Ralph Anspach who unearthed the story.

Picture: A family playing a game of Monopoly in the 1930s (Credit: SSPL/Getty Images)


SAT 04:00 BBC News (w172xzjypgs2934)
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SAT 04:06 BBC Correspondents' Look Ahead (w3ct2zvw)
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SAT 05:06 The Cultural Frontline (w3ct1ptr)
Black Speculative Arts

Author, editor and publisher Sheree Renée Thomas celebrates the global moment the Black Speculative Arts movement is having.
Traditionally in popular culture Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculative Arts have long been considered the domain of white men. Yet, contrary to popular belief, Black artists have been creating groundbreaking work in this space from the very beginning of these genres. Sheree and scholar Susana Morris re-evaluate and recognise the forgotten or underappreciated names that, without, the community would not be as recognised as it is today.

Author Nisi Shawl gives us context of what it was like to be a science fiction writer when Black Speculative Arts was not considered as part of the traditional ‘canon’. They explain, from a personal angle, how the community grew and developed into the worldwide phenomenon that it is today. In 2018, the Marvel movie Black Panther was released. After just one month it had made over a billion dollars in profit and became cherished by fans across the world. This was a watershed moment for Black Speculative Arts as it proved that there was a huge audience for the work. However, without the independent publishers allowing artists to create their work for decades on the fringes, the movie never could have happened.

With the help of Andrea Hairston, Sheree explores the importance of these presses, able to create exciting and unique work, that helped usher in a new wave of artists that are taking on the mainstream like never before. Dr Reynaldo Anderson is a curator and exhibitor of Black Speculative Arts. He talks to Sheree how one exhibition in 2015 has gone on to become a global movement with artists now across Europe, America and Africa.

Image: A picture designed for the recent exhibition in New York of the Black Speculative Arts Movement.
Credit: John Jennings, Black Speculative Arts


SAT 05:30 BBC News Summary (w172xzks46crs3n)
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SAT 05:32 World of Wisdom (w3ct2zwb)
Social distance

The pandemic has meant stopping so many of the everyday things we used to do, including not hugging and kissing others. For Susanna from Italy, not being able to connect with people socially in the way she is used to has led to a deep disorientation. Gary Zukav gives his perspective that it is not the pandemic that has led to her feeling more isolated from others, but rather it is fear of what is different.

Presented by the BBC's Sana Safi.

Produced by Charlie Taylor and Ruth Edwards.


SAT 05:50 Ros Atkins on ... (w3ct2dpd)
America’s abortion divide

Towards the end of 2021, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in the most important abortion case in a generation. It is the biggest challenge to a 1973 ruling that legalised abortion nationally, and could change reproductive rights in the country. Ros Atkins looks at the abortion debate in the US and asks why this case is happening now.

Photo: Abortion rights advocates and anti-abortion protesters demonstrate in front of the US Supreme Court on 1, December, 2021 in Washington, DC (REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein)


SAT 06:00 BBC News (w172xzjypgs2jld)
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SAT 06:06 The Science Hour (w3ct1ywb)
2021 the year of variants

In our first programme of the year, we gathered a group of scientific experts directly involved in analysing the structure and impact of the SARS- Cov-2 coronavirus. There were concerns over the emergence of two new variants, Alfa and Beta, especially whether these variants might spread more quickly or outmanoeuvre the suite of new vaccines that were about to be rolled out.
And now with Omicron, the same questions are being asked about this variant’s ability to spread and overcome our defences.

We’ve invited the same scientists back to give us their assessment of our journey with Covid 19 over the past year and discuss their findings on Omicron.

Featuring:
Ravi Gupta Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Cambridge
Tulio De Oliveria Professor on Bioinformatics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Dr. Allie Greaney From the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Washington School of Medicine
And Professor Jeremy Luban from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Should you wash your eggs? Well, believe it or not, there is quite an international debate about this question from CrowdScience listener Susan. In Canada, where Susan grew up, commercially sold eggs are washed before they reach stores, whereas in the UK where she is now living they are not. So what is best to avoid contamination?

It’s one of a number of egg-themed questions that CrowdScience tries to crack in this episode. One of our presenters, Marnie Chesterton, heads over to Susan’s home in London to cook some eggs and explore other egg cooking questions from our listeners, such as what is the science behind frying an egg without it sticking to the pan and why are some boiled eggs harder to shell than others?

Meanwhile, this episode’s other presenter, Anand Jagatia, explores questions about eggs after they have hatched. He investigates a case of curious chicken behaviour sent in by listener Laurie, as well as working out how a cuckoo knows it’s a cuckoo when it’s been raised in another bird’s nest.


Featuring: Dr. Vincent Guyonnet, Dr. Valérie Lechevalier, Dr. Siobhan Abeyesinghe and Dr. Ros Gloag






(Image:Getty Images)


SAT 07:00 BBC News (w172xzjypgs2nbj)
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SAT 07:06 The History Hour (w3ct1z81)
A history of games

The inside story of games that shaped the modern world. Including Atari's Nolan Bushnell on his game Pong which helped launch the video game industry. Plus the origin of Grand Theft Auto, the man who invented Tetris, the son of the Lego brick pioneer and the true story of Monopoly. Max Pearson also talks to the technology journalist Louise Blain about the development of the huge gaming industry and where it goes next.

Photo: Pong being played at a retro games event in Germany (Getty Images)


SAT 08:00 BBC News (w172xzjypgs2s2n)
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SAT 08:06 HARDtalk (w3ct1n63)
Aly Raisman: Are gold medals put above athletes' wellbeing?

The athletic excellence seen at the Tokyo Olympics will live long in the memory, but so will the moment the brilliant US gymnast Simone Biles chose not to compete to safeguard her mental and physical health. US gymnastics is still reeling from the repercussions of a sex abuse scandal - what can go wrong when results are put above care of individual athletes? Stephen Sackur speaks to Aly Raisman, a multiple Olympic gold medallist who testified about being abused by the team's former doctor. Is there a wider lesson for elite sport in the shame of American gymnastics?


SAT 08:30 BBC News Summary (w172xzks46cs4c1)
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SAT 08:32 The Conversation (w3ct1p9m)
Musical child prodigies

Very few people in the world are blessed with exceptional musical talent that is apparent from an early age. What is childhood like in the spotlight, especially as a young woman? To find out, Kim Chakanetsa meets two musicians whose careers began when they were children.

Tosin Jegede was a child singing sensation in Nigeria in the 1980s. She released her first solo album in 1985 when just five years old, and went on to release two more before her teenage years. From hiding from adoring fans, flying all over the country to perform and singing in front of Nelson Mandela, her childhood was anything but ordinary and she had to cope with publicity which went well beyond her music and its performance.

Twenty-year-old Sujari Britt is a classical cellist from the United States. She began learning the instrument at the age of four, having already studied the violin and the piano. A year later, Sujari started performing in a professional capacity with her sibling trio. By the time she was eight, she had played at the White House for President Obama. Sujari has performed at renowned venues such as Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden, and with reputable orchestras in Europe, Asia, Canada and the USA.

Produced by Emily Naylor and Jane Thurlow

(Image: (L) Tosin Jegede, credit Tosin Jegede. (R) Sujari Britt, credit Jamie Jung.)


SAT 09:00 BBC News (w172xzjypgs2wts)
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SAT 09:06 The Newsroom (w172xyy5s3kdjn7)
with coverage of the Funeral of Archbishop Desmond Tutu


SAT 10:00 BBC News (w172xzjypgs30kx)
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SAT 10:06 Sportshour (w172y0qcmhykflk)
Tokyo and beyond

A look back on some of the athletes we met at the Tokyo Games and look ahead to Beijing including Switzerland’s Jolanda Neff who won the cross-country mountain bike event, Spanish Paralympian Desirée Vila who was competing at her first Games and Georgie Cohen who will be representing Israel at the Winter Games in February, and honouring the legacy of her grandfather Maurice Cohen.

Image: Tokyo 2020 Olympic Stadium. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Getty Images)


SAT 11:00 BBC News (w172xzjypgs34b1)
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SAT 11:06 The Newsroom (w172xyxwb4x5r99)
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SAT 11:30 BBC News Summary (w172xzks46cshlf)
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SAT 11:32 WorklifeIndia (w3ct2f49)
[Repeat of broadcast at 01:32 today]


SAT 12:00 BBC News (w172xzjypgs3825)
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SAT 12:06 World Book Club (w3ct1x9w)
Naoise Dolan: Exciting Times

The first of our season of celebrating The Exuberance of Youth in this the centenary year of the BBC, World Book Club talks to Irish writer Naoise Dolan about her dazzling novel Exciting Times. Psychologically astute and dryly funny, Exciting Times is a modern, intelligent dissection of youth, power and privilege set amongst the international circles of contemporary Hong Kong. Clever, young millennial Ava, an Irish graduate teaching English, is having an affair with rich cynical banker Julian. Then she meets Edith. Earnest, attentive and all the things Julian isn’t. A raw, intimate exploration of love and sexuality amongst millennials, Exciting Times charts the often transactional nature of relationships in our complicated modern world.

(Photo courtesy of Naoise Dolan.)


SAT 13:00 BBC News (w172xzjypgs3ct9)
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SAT 13:06 Newshour (w172xv5j7x0lc3x)
South Africa holds state funeral for Desmond Tutu

The South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has delivered the eulogy for Archbishop Desmond Tutu, describing him as a crusader in the struggle for freedom, justice, equality and peace. Mr Ramaphosa said the anti-apartheid campaigner's influence had been felt not only in South Africa but around the world.

Canada says it will take in more than two-hundred Afghan female judges and their families who have fled from the Taliban. We hear from one of them.

And former armed forces chiefs and other prominent Indians have written to their Prime Minister, accusing Hindu fundamentalists of dangerous hate speech and violence.

(Photo credit: Reuters)


SAT 14:00 BBC News (w172xzjypgs3hkf)
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SAT 14:06 Sportsworld (w172y0tndfcb497)
Live Sporting Action

What a way to kick off 2022 by joining Lee James for the latest edition of Sportsworld. Former West Ham midfielder Nigel Reo-Coker, current Aston Villa defender Anita Asante and current Sierra Leone striker Kei Kamara will join Lee to discuss the latest news from the Premier League. We'll have updates from the early kick off between Arsenal and Manchester City and coverage of Tottenham Hotspurs trip to Watford. Plus, we'll preview the start of the African Cup of Nations.

Image: Pierre Hojbjerg of Tottenham Hotspur tackled by Watford's Juraj Kucka (Photo by Getty Images)


SAT 18:00 BBC News (w172xzjypgs3zjy)
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SAT 18:06 The Newsroom (w172xyxwb4x6lj6)
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SAT 18:30 BBC News Summary (w172xzks46ctbtb)
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SAT 18:32 World of Wisdom (w3ct2zwb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:32 today]


SAT 18:50 Sporting Witness (w3ct1l9b)
Yale women rowers protest

In 1976, the Yale women's rowing team stripped naked to demand equal treatment for women's sport. The protest attracted national attention in the USA and helped force universities to make the same funding and facilities available to women athletes as to men. Catherine Davies talks to two of the Yale protestors, Christine Ernst and Ginny Gilder.

(Photo: The 1976 Yale women's rowing team in action. Credit: Getty Images).


SAT 19:00 BBC News (w172xzjypgs4392)
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SAT 19:06 The Arts Hour (w3ct300p)
New Year's concert

From the BBC’s studios at Maida Vale in London, Georgia Mann presents the World Service’s annual concert featuring members of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme past and present.

Founded in 1999 with the aim of nurturing and promoting some of the world’s finest young musicians at the start of their international careers, the list of NGA alumni is now well over a hundred and includes some of the biggest names in classical music, including trumpeter Alison Balsom, pianists Igor Levit and Benjamin Grosvenor, violinists Alina Ibragimova and Lisa Batiashvili, soprano Fatma Said, the Quatuor Ebene, and many more. Participants are offered the chance to make studio recordings, perform with the BBC’s orchestras, and at many of the UK’s most prestigious venues and festivals including London’s Wigmore Hall and the BBC Proms.

Today, a chance to hear from award-winning British mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston, Swedish violinist Johan Dalene – at 21, one of the youngest ever NGAs – and superstar jazz bass player Misha Mullov-Abbado, a New Generation Artist from 2017 to 2019 and now one of the biggest names on the scene.

Image foreground: New Generation Artist Johan Dalene (Credit: Mats Bäcker)
Image background: Fireworks display (Credit: Getty Images)


SAT 20:00 BBC News (w172xzjypgs4716)
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SAT 20:06 The Arts Hour (w3ct1rv2)
The Arts Hour International Comedy Show

The Arts Hour celebrates the New Year with a festive feast of laughter.

Nikki Bedi and South African comedian Tumi Morake host an international line up of some of the best global comics, enjoying the funnier side of life after another challenging year.

Taking part in the New Year comedy celebrations are one of India’s biggest comedians Kanan Gill, who ponders the weird world of online product reviews and his retirement plans.

From Accra, we’re joined by the Queen of Ghanaian comedy, Nigerian Ghanaian comic Jacinta Ocansey who reveals the female freedoms within Covid 19 lockdowns.

The hugely popular Mexican comedian Daniel Sosa, fresh from his recent tour, joins us from Mexico City and tells us about the best and worst of his local traditions.

Canadian American comedian DeAnne Smith shares some of her trademark wit and wisdom.

Ugandan funny man and founder of the Africa Laughs Festival, Patrick Salvado, explains the restaurant boom in Uganda.

And Japanese writer and comedian Yumi Nagashima entertains us with tales of Snow White and subway announcements.

Producers: Lucy Collingwood and Andrea Kidd

(Photo: Tumi Morake. Credit: Kevin Mark Pass)


SAT 21:00 BBC News (w172xzjypgs4bsb)
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SAT 21:06 Newshour (w172xv5j7x0mb2y)
Anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu laid to rest

The funeral mass for South African anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu has taken place at the Anglican cathedral in Cape Town.

In his eulogy, the country's president Cyril Ramaphosa described Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped end the racist regime in South Africa, as "the spiritual father of our new nation". We'll hear from a priest who came to know Archbishop Tutu over several decades.

Also in the programme: the government of Borno state in Nigeria says it has closed camps housing over a million internally displaced people. And an astonishing story from China: a 37-year-old man who was abducted from his family has found his biological mother again, after drawing a map of his childhood village from memory.

(Picture shows Floral tributes alongside a smiling picture of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Credit: EPA)


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SAT 22:20 Sports News (w172y0styprntq2)
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SAT 22:30 BBC News Summary (w172xzks46cttsv)
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SAT 22:32 The Cultural Frontline (w3ct1ptr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:06 today]


SAT 23:00 BBC News (w172xzjypgs4l8l)
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SAT 23:06 Music Life (w3ct1hd0)
Bass: How low can you go? with Laura Lee, Blu DeTiger, Karina Rykman and Adeline

Bass players Laura Lee, Blu DeTiger, Karina Rykman and Adeline discuss what the low end brings to music, why playing for an audience is an unbeatable experience, and how where they’re from inspires their sound.

Laura Lee is the bassist in Khruangbin, formed with guitarist Mark Speer and drummer DJ Johnson Jr back in 2009 in Houston, Texas. Their music blends everything from rock, psych, funk, surf, and dub influences from across the world.

Blu DeTiger is a bassist and DJ from New York. She started playing bass when she was seven years old, inspired by her brother who was playing drums at the time, and rose to fame after videos of her playing during lockdown went viral on social media.

Karina Rykman is a member of jazz-rock musician Marco Benevento’s band, and describes herself as a “genre fluid bassist”.

French-Caribbean singer, producer, and (of course) bassist Adeline blends Funk, R&B and vintage soul and was originally the front woman for the nu-disco band Escort.