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Pamela Williams: 'Sweet Saxations'

NPR

By Farai Chideya

Published April 25, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

Correspondent Farai Chideya talks with jazz saxophonist Pamela Williams about her latest CD, Sweet Saxations.

Copyright 2005 NPR

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Farai Chideya

Farai Chideya is a multimedia journalist who has worked in print, television, online, and radio. Prior to joining NPR's News & Notes, Chideya hosted Your Call, a daily news and cultural call-in show on San Francisco's KALW 91.7 FM. Chideya has also been a correspondent for ABC News, anchored the prime time program Pure Oxygen on the Oxygen women's channel, and contributed commentaries to CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and BET. She got her start as a researcher and reporter at Newsweek magazine. In 1997 Newsweek named her to its "Century Club" of 100 people to watch.

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