Kelefa Sanneh

Kelefa Sanneh has contributed to The New Yorker since 2001 and has been a staff writer since 2008. He is the author of “Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres.” He is also a contributor to “CBS Sunday Morning.” He came to The New Yorker from the Times, where he had been the pop-music critic since 2002. Previously, he was the deputy editor of Transition, a journal of race and culture based at the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University. His writing has also appeared in a number of magazines and a handful of books, including “Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z” and “Da Capo Best Music Writing.” He lives in New York City with his family.