Kitka Brings 'Powerful Women's Voices, Joined Together' From East To West

By Lulu Garcia-Navarro,

Ned Wharton

Published December 16, 2018 at 8:03 AM EST

Corrected: January 18, 2019 at 12:00 AM EST

A previous version of the Web summary listed an incorrect album name. Kitka's featured album is called Evening Star, not Harmonies of Heaven and Earth.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Lulu Garcia-Navarro is the host of Weekend Edition Sunday and one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. She is infamous in the IT department of NPR for losing laptops to bullets, hurricanes, and bomb blasts.

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Ned Wharton

Ned Wharton is a senior producer and music director for Weekend Edition.

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