Birthplace of Jazz

New Orleans is known as the birthplace of jazz, but jazz came from an even freakier place—the practice of voodoo. 

The freedom to openly practice voodoo combined with the highly rhythmic sounds of African percussion and European horns led to the birth of jazz. 

Voodoo is commonly attributed to the spiritual and improvisational aspects of the movement. 

To this day, the most famous voodoo queen who ever lived was Marie Laveau—a free woman in New Orleans in born in 1801. 

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