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Rissi Palmer

Home: Cultivate Your Table

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Rissi shares how home is sometimes the tables you build in order to accommodate and live your purpose.

Country musician, Rissi Palmer, shares her experiences as an artist with authenticity and heart. She invites us to think about how home is not necessarily a structure but a table that you build yourself and invite others to who share in your purpose.

About the speaker

Rissi Palmer (Durham, NC), who describes her musical style as "Southern Soul," has received widespread media attention in national publications including Ebony, Parade, People, Newsweek, Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal and more. She has performed on the CBS Morning Show, CNN, Oprah & Friends, at the White House, Lincoln Center, and the Grand Ole Opry.  Rissi made music history in 2007 with the release of her Top 40 debut single, "Country Girl," becoming the first African-American female to chart a country song since 1987. She is now the host of the Apple Music Country show, Color Me Country Radio w/ Rissi Palmer and administers the Color Me Country Artist Grant Fund to provide grants for artists of color pursuing careers in Country and Americana Music.

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