Yasmin Williams

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Guitarist

With a relaxing and inventive compositional, acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Yasmin Williams specializes in lap tapping, a technique that involves playing the guitar with both hands over the fretboard as it rests face-up on the player's lap. Incorporating tapped harmonics, bowing, percussive strikes, alternative tunings, and even tap shoes into her sound, she landed on the Billboard Heatseekers chart with her debut album, 2018's Unwind.

Her newly released sophomore album, Urban Driftwood, has gotten high praise from outlets like Rolling Stone, NPR, Pitchfork, and the Washington Post.