Anika Noni Rose has been played on NTS in shows including The NTS Breakfast Show w/ Zakia, featured first on 22 December 2022. Songs played include Family (Blaze Roots Remix).

Anika Noni Rose (born September 6, in Bloomfield, Connecticut) is a Tony-Award winning American singer and actress.

After studying drama at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, CA, Rose moved to New York without a job. She had been in New York three months when she nabbed the role of Rusty in Broadway's Footloose. Rose's big Broadway break was getting cast as Tonya Pinkins' daughter in Caroline, or Change. In 2004, Rose was awarded the…