Danyel Smith

Author, host, and creative consultant in Los Angeles, CA

Danyel Smith

Author, host, and creative consultant in Los Angeles, CA

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Danyel Smithis author of the critically-acclaimed Shine Bright: A Very Personal History Black Women in Pop, and creator/host of the award-winning Black Girl Songbook, a podcast focused on the stories of Black women in music. A former culture editor at ESPN, editor-in-chief of VIBE, and editor of Billboard, the New Yorker calls Danyel “one of the nation’s most astute chroniclers of pop and hip-hop culture.”

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    • Penguin Random House