Brandee Younger是美国竖琴演奏家。 　　Brandee Younger (born July 1, 1983) is an American harpist. Younger infuses classical, jazz, soul, and funk influences to the harp tradition pioneered by her predecessors and idols Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. Younger leads her own ensemble, performs as a soloist and has worked as a sideman for such musicians as Pharoah Sanders, Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Bill Lee and Reggie Workman, and other popular artists including Lauryn Hill, John Legend (Love in the Future), Common (Finding Forever), Ryan Leslie, Drake, Maxwell, The Roots, Moses Sumney and Salaam Remi. Younger is noted for her work with saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, who was featured on her 2019 release, Soul Awakening. Currently[when?], she actively records and tours with drummer and producer Makaya McCraven, following the release of his 2018 recording Universal Beings. 　　In April 2019, Younger's original composition "Hortense" was featured in the documentary Homecoming, by Beyoncé. The recording used was from an NPR Music Field recording released in 2013. Also in the spring of 2019, Younger was selected to present a spotlight performance on the second night of Quincy Jones' "Soundtrack of America" the series-opening of The Shed in NYC, curated by Steve McQueen and Quincy Jones himself. She was also featured in the series-opening concerts, alongside Kelsey Lu and performed a feature with Moses Sumney. Her original work is also heard in the 2018 HBO TV series Random Acts of Flyness, by filmmaker and director, Terence Nance. 　　In 2020, Younger was awarded "Player of the Year in Instruments Rare in Jazz" by the Jazz Journalists Association. The same year she was named winner of the DownBeat Critics Poll in the category of "Rising Star" harpist. She also was featured on DownBeat magazine's July 2020 cover along with Dezron Douglas and six other artists. 　　Younger has received a handful of bylines for Revive Music and Harp Column Magazine and holds several leadership positions as a member of the Apollo Young Patrons Steering Committee, and Vice President of the Metro NYC and Long Island Chapters of the American Harp Society. She also serves as Director At Large of the American Harp Society, Inc. Stepping away from traditional venues to bring live performance to alternative spaces, in 2016 Younger served as curator of the weekly Harp On Park lunchtime concert series "highlighting the diversity of the harp and the contemporary importance of an ancient instrument" and in 2019, curated Her Song, highlighting the works of women composers for Arts Brookfield. In 2017, she curated Divine Ella, a concert dedicated to the legacy of Ella Fitzgerald as part of the historic Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture's annual Women's Jazz Festival. Brandee is among the musicians included in the book The New Face of Jazzby author, Cicily Janus, "Freedom of Expression: Interviews With Women in Jazz", by Chris Becker and was also featured in the Impulse Artist Series' "Alter Ego Series"in November 2010, a young artist series created by classical pianist Jade Simmons.