Ann Delisi's Essential Conversations

Ann Delisi continues her conversation with NPR Political Correspondent, Don Gonyea who talks about what it’s like to be a reporter at a Trump rally, covering Barack Obama when he spoke to 250,000 people in Berlin, being at The White House on 9/11 and the phone conversation he had with his wife that day.

Ann Delisi talks with her longtime friend and colleague, Don Gonyea, about getting the call to cover The White House for NPR, the protocol for the daily press briefings, the logistics of being in the press corps on Air Force One and covering President Donald Trump.

Ann Delisi continues her conversation with Prince’s longtime audio engineer and Berklee College of Music Professor, Susan Rogers. In Part Two, they discuss the two musicians whose tour support he anonymously paid to keep their careers going, how he created his own competition and when she realized it was time to leave.

Ann Delisi talks with Prince’s longtime audio engineer and Berklee College of Music Professor, Susan Rogers, about meeting him for the first time, the song she loved that he made her erase and the rehearsals for the Purple Rain Tour

Saxophonist Dave McMurray recalls his work with fellow musician and producer, Don Was, working with The Rolling Stones and his Blue Note Records debut album “Music Is Life”

Radio DJ and Programmer, Mike Halloran, talks about getting on the radio at WDET in Detroit, legendary Detroit DJ The Electrifying Mojo, discovering The Violent Femmes and seeing Bjork wearing an Underground Resistance jacket in Stockholm

Internationally acclaimed conductor, Leonard Slatkin, takes the listener inside the world of Classical Music and explains what exactly it is that a conductor does.

Dynamic Detroit singer and prolific songwriter, Jax Anderson, talks with Ann Delisi about making her own instruments as a kid and the beginnings of her band, Flint Eastwood.

Songwriter Allee Willis talks about working with Earth Wind and Fire, her time with Bob Dylan and James Brown and the “September.”

Barrett Strong tells Ann Delisi the history behind Motown hit songs “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” and “Money (That’s What I Want).”

Mr. Porter gets introspective about his life and his work, and reveals his Top 10 Hip Hop Songs.

Ann Delisi talks with Don Was about producing, his kids, Iggy Pop and why he won’t write a book.

In 2018, Ann Delisi sat down with Official White House Photographer for the Obama Administration, Pete Souza, in which they talked about his access to sensitive information, his favorite day in the White House and the night they caught Osama Bin Laden.

Jazz drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and Jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding talked with Ann Delisi when they performed together at the Detroit Jazz Festival in 2018. They talk about teaching, performing and being jazz artists.

Wayne Kramer talks Ann Delisi about his memoir “The Hard Stuff”, how the MC5 began, the genius of lead singer Rob Tyner and their legendary album “Kick Out the Jams."

In 2017, Ann Delisi sat down with journalist, actor and humorist, Mo Rocca at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan. They talked about writing for kids, U.S. Presidents, The Daily Show and how differently Jon Stewart would have dealt with Donald Trump

For decades, Detroit radio host, Ann Delisi, has been talking with people whose creative spirit drives them. With some Midwest charm, she talks with everyone from White House Photographer Pete Souza to Journalist/ Actor Mo Rocca to Jazz Artists Esperanza Spalding and Terri Lyne Carrington.