NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Big Freedia about her new album, "Pressing Onward," and how her childhood singing in the church led her to this moment, fusing gospel with her signature bounce music.

Big Freedia, back center, along with dancers and band perform a gospel song for students at the 25th anniversary edition of Forum, the Loyola College of Music and Media's weekly class, at Loyola ...

Big Freedia is known as the Queen of Bounce, but her latest album provided an opportunity to try something completely different: gospel. “If you didn't know, the Queen of Bounce started in gospel. I ...

Big Freedia is quick to say she keeps God first in everything she does, but Pressing Onward, with its mix of gospel choirs and booty shaking, is for everyone. "It's for Black, white, straight, gay.

We sat down with her at Esplanade Studios in New Orleans, where she recorded much of the new album. It used to be a church, and the stained glass and old wood still infuse the space with reverence. It ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Big Freedia about her new album, "Pressing Onward," and how her childhood singing in the church led her to this moment, fusing gospel with her signature bounce music.