Skip to main content

California Gazette

Lifestyle

Lifestyle

Where the Blues Meets Devotion, Miss Freddye and Ananda Xenia Shakti

Where the Blues Meets Devotion, Miss Freddye and Ananda Xenia Shakti

By: Will Ellis Miss Freddye can command a room with a blues song. Ananda Xenia Shakti can invite one into stillness with a mantra. Their performances may sound worlds apart, but both women have built lives around a belief that music can help people carry what words alone cannot. For Miss Freddye, known as Pittsburgh’s Lady of the Blues, that belief grew from home and church. Her mother’s love of blues music and the influence