Work in Progress: Aloe Blacc
Work in Progress with Sophia Bush
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4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc is back with his first album in five years — but it's not your typical album. This one merges the music with philanthropic causes.
Aloe shares how his family's roots have helped shape the sounds of his 6th studio album, the vital role of community, his fascinating take on what the music industry was like in the 90s without social media, and what led to him using his music for positive social transformation!
Aloe Blacc's new album, 'Stand Together' is available now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. It's Sophia. Welcome to Work in Progress. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to another week of Work in Progress. I am geeked about today's guest because I am such an |
| 0:23.9 | enormous fan, not only of his art, but his activism, and I cannot wait to pick his brain on all |
| 0:30.3 | of it. Today's guest is Allo Black. You know him as an American singer and rapper. |
| 0:43.9 | You know him from Avichie's Wake Me Up and from his smash hit, I Need a Dollar. |
| 0:49.6 | What you may not know is that Allo never planned on being a musician. |
| 0:52.3 | His life kind of happened by accident. |
| 0:58.8 | He thought he would be an academic and somehow took a left turn. And from touring around the world and major stages everywhere, he has managed to |
| 1:05.7 | solidify his place in the mainstream music scene while also being an incredible advocate for change. |
| 1:13.8 | From studying the methodologies of Nelson Mandela to being mentored by Harry Belafonte, |
| 1:20.4 | Allo has been involved in so many charitable causes and in deep social justice work. |
| 1:26.9 | He speaks out on the importance of mental health awareness. He |
| 1:30.0 | has collaborated with the Biden administration to promote its national strategy to prevent suicide. |
| 1:35.8 | And his latest album, Stand Together, is not only a beautiful musical journey that I've been |
| 1:41.7 | waiting for for five years, but every song on the album |
| 1:45.4 | has a partnered philanthropic initiative that fans can learn about. Talk about being a true artist |
| 1:54.6 | in every sense of the word and spending your privilege and your platform for good. Let's hear from |
| 2:00.0 | Allo Black. |
| 2:12.3 | Where are you today? |
| 2:14.7 | I live in L.A. I'm in Glendale. |
| 2:17.3 | Okay. I grew up in Pasadena. |
| 2:19.0 | Oh, are you there now? |
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