{"id":1820616,"date":"2026-03-11T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1820616"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:50:00","slug":"precious-renee-tucker-the-solange-approved-pianist-going-viral-on-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1820616","title":{"rendered":"Precious Renee Tucker, the Solange-approved pianist going viral on TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1200\/0-0-2070-1380\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441342.png&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"main-article standard \">\n<div class=\"article-main-content article-wrapper has-media-but-its-an-image\" data-status=\"loaded\" data-primary-article=\"true\" data-url=\"\/music\/article\/69888\/1\/precious-renee-tucker-solange-approved-pianist-going-viral-on-tiktok\" data-article-id=\"69888\">\n<header class=\"article-header has-landscape-image no-media\">\n<div class=\"wrapper dg-max-width\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<figure class=\"main-img has-figcaption\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.28\" data-template=\"Standard Article\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Precious Renee Tucker\" class=\"img\" height=\"1618\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1400\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441342.png\" width=\"2070\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"inner\"><span class=\"credit\">Precious Renee Tucker<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"inner\"><time datetime=\"2026-03-11T15:50:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"11 March 2026\"><span class=\"month\">March<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"11\">11,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"titles\">\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical - music\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\">Music<\/a><br \/>\n\/<br \/>\n<a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/feature\">Feature<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"standard-tag-container\"><a class=\"standard-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\">Music<\/a> \/<br \/>\n<a class=\"standard-series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/feature\">Feature<\/a><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><span>Precious Renee Tucker, the Solange-approved pianist going viral <span class=\"nowrap\">on TikTok<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<h2>The Arkansas-born experimental pianist went viral playing four keyboards at once. Now she\u2019s blending classical, gospel and free jazz while imagining what music might sound like on <span class=\"nowrap\">other planets<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-03-11T15:50:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"11 March 2026\"><span class=\"month\">March<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"11\">11,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-03-11T15:50:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"11 March 2026\"><span class=\"month\">March<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"11\">11,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"providers\">\n<div class=\"contributors\"><span class=\"contributor\" data-contributor-role=\"Text\"><span class=\"contributor-role\">Text<\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/laurapitcher\">Laura Pitcher<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-body-container\">\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>\u201cWhat colour do you see?\u201d That\u2019s what Precious Renee Tucker asked the crowd while playing different compositions at her Piano Anatomy class at the Telfar store in New York. I closed my eyes and saw deep blue and magenta. One song even turned from forest green into brown. I\u2019d seen the experimental pianist play before on Instagram \u2013 in one of her now-signature videos where she plays on four keyboards at once \u2013 but hearing Tucker play in person is nothing short of spiritual. Those colours and that performance, which happened back in December 2025, lingered with me until early March, when I spoke to Tucker on the phone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Based in Arkansas, Tucker was working as a server and piano teacher just months before going viral on Instagram and TikTok. Since then, she\u2019s been back and forth to New York City, to play at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/solange\">Solange Knowles<\/a>\u2019 Saint Heron book event and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/telfar\">Telfar<\/a>\u2019s intimate show. Online, she\u2019s adored by almost anyone who encounters her piano playing, including Amaarae, keiyaA and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/kelela\">Kelela<\/a>. But she\u2019s still a working piano teacher. \u201cI always encourage my students to trust their instincts and, a lot of the time, we just end up talking about piano,\u201d she says. \u201cI love classical music, but I just wonder if we\u2019re including the full archive of all of the music that has ever been documented.\u201d If her students do something a little bit outside of the norm, she simply tells them perhaps they\u2019re channelling something we \u201clost the archive to\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Tucker\u2019s approach to teaching would surprise no one who has listened to her effortlessly blend classical performance with Witch House, or even free jazz. Experimenting with the piano came naturally to her. \u201cWhen I was around two or three, I just gravitated to it,\u201d she says. Even before getting lessons, Tucker\u2019s parents always knew that she had a consistent connection with the piano. The small white toy keyboard in her videos is the first keyboard she ever had. \u201cAt one point, I almost did ballet, but my parents are very Christian, so they always had the mentality of letting God show them who I was or what I needed to be doing,\u201d she says. They booked her lessons and loaned a keyboard that a choir member had been gifted. \u201cI didn\u2019t know how much of a luxury it was to have my very first piano teacher be a Black woman who played gospel, but could play as classical as well,\u201d she adds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tucker speaks of all the teachers in her life fondly. Like the directors of her school band, where she played the clarinet. \u201cOur band directors really made us feel like we were invincible and we could play anything,\u201d she says. \u201cThere would always be something new in our folders that looked a little bit too hard, but they\u2019d encourage us to take risks.\u201d In high school, Tucker says band meant everything to her. Also, the orchestra, where she played the cello. While every instrument seems to interest Tucker, she recalls her days of clarinet like an affair. \u201cI cheated on piano with clarinet, because I still had this relationship with piano for a while,\u201d she says. \u201cBut also, I was always watching <\/span><em><span>SpongeBob<\/span><\/em><span> and trying to figure out what Squidward was doing. Why does he love this wind instrument so much?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019ve been exploring the concept of non-duality, and the idea of infinity is so relieving because maybe that\u2019s how many emotions I\u2019m allowed to feel. Maybe that\u2019s how many times I\u2019m allowed to make a mistake. Maybe that\u2019s how many chances for miracles there are\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Growing up as an only child in a predominantly white area, Tucker says she always felt like the external world had limits. She was uncomfortable with the idea of being \u201ctoo much\u201d. \u201cIt just kind of seemed like I would reach max capacity, whether that be for emotional freedom or expression,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I would never run out of it with myself, and I would never run out of it through piano. That\u2019s the only time where I felt like I could be completely honest.\u201d Through piano, Tucker remained hopeful that there was more than she could conceive at the time. \u201cI\u2019ve been exploring the concept of non-duality, and the idea of infinity is so relieving because maybe that\u2019s how many emotions I\u2019m allowed to feel,\u201d she adds. \u201cMaybe that\u2019s how many times I\u2019m allowed to make a mistake. Maybe that\u2019s how many chances for miracles there are.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There\u2019s a working theory that Tucker is still exploring: our bodies, as \u201cancient machinery\u201d, hold onto history and memory that can be reactivated when you play the instruments that other humans have played for hundreds of years. It could perhaps explain why young creatives seem to be becoming interested in instruments again, although outside of their classical setting. In recent years, there have been reimagined <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssense.com\/en-us\/men\/product\/vaquera\/black-violin-bag\/18498911\"><span>violin cases coming out from brands like Vaquera<\/span><\/a><span> and harpists playing at fashion week parties. \u201cMaybe the newest aspiration is to not have enough time to be on Instagram because you\u2019re busy having an experience,\u201d says Tucker. Over time, she\u2019s used the piano not only as a tool of expression, but as a tool of communication to either her past or future self, or perhaps a separate realm. \u201cWhen I play, it\u2019s very subconscious for me \u2013 I just get the data out,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>An astrophysicist at her core (she\u2019s an Aquarius and <em>Interstellar<\/em> is her favourite movie at the moment), Tucker tells me she doesn\u2019t know why music is the realm she operates within. It\u2019s something that still puzzles her. \u201cI always tried to resist it, but I was introduced to piano in such a spiritual context, where everyone came together to have an experience,\u201d she says. \u201cI was so drawn to the energy source of the church, which, from my perspective, was the pianos.\u201d These days, she\u2019s still inspired by gospel, but also EDM, metal, \u201ceverything Solange does\u201d, and the weather in Tornado Alley. \u201cI don\u2019t mean to romanticise tornadoes, but I&#8217;ve been really inspired by weather lately, because it\u2019s some of the first data that we get from new planets,\u201d Tucker says. \u201cI\u2019m trying to score what kind of music is making up the wind on Venus.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the future, Tucker wants to get her PhD in planetary science and contribute to scientific research. She also wouldn\u2019t mind retiring as a mathematician. 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Get The Drop<\/h1>\n<div class=\"meta-row\">\n<p class=\"meta\">Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"confirmation\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p class=\"confirmation-title\">Thank you. You have been subscribed<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>\u201cWhat colour do you see?\u201d That\u2019s what Precious Renee Tucker asked the crowd while playing different compositions at her Piano Anatomy class at the Telfar store in New York. I closed my eyes and saw deep blue and magenta. One song even turned from forest green into brown. I\u2019d seen the experimental pianist play before on Instagram \u2013 in one of her now-signature videos where she plays on four keyboards at once \u2013 but hearing Tucker play in person is nothing short of spiritual. Those colours and that performance, which happened back in December 2025, lingered with me until early March, when I spoke to Tucker on the phone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Based in Arkansas, Tucker was working as a server and piano teacher just months before going viral on Instagram and TikTok. Since then, she\u2019s been back and forth to New York City, to play at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/solange\">Solange Knowles<\/a>\u2019 Saint Heron book event and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/telfar\">Telfar<\/a>\u2019s intimate show. Online, she\u2019s adored by almost anyone who encounters her piano playing, including Amaarae, keiyaA and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/kelela\">Kelela<\/a>. But she\u2019s still a working piano teacher. \u201cI always encourage my students to trust their instincts and, a lot of the time, we just end up talking about piano,\u201d she says. \u201cI love classical music, but I just wonder if we\u2019re including the full archive of all of the music that has ever been documented.\u201d If her students do something a little bit outside of the norm, she simply tells them perhaps they\u2019re channelling something we \u201clost the archive to\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Tucker\u2019s approach to teaching would surprise no one who has listened to her effortlessly blend classical performance with Witch House, or even free jazz. Experimenting with the piano came naturally to her. \u201cWhen I was around two or three, I just gravitated to it,\u201d she says. Even before getting lessons, Tucker\u2019s parents always knew that she had a consistent connection with the piano. The small white toy keyboard in her videos is the first keyboard she ever had. \u201cAt one point, I almost did ballet, but my parents are very Christian, so they always had the mentality of letting God show them who I was or what I needed to be doing,\u201d she says. They booked her lessons and loaned a keyboard that a choir member had been gifted. \u201cI didn\u2019t know how much of a luxury it was to have my very first piano teacher be a Black woman who played gospel, but could play as classical as well,\u201d she adds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tucker speaks of all the teachers in her life fondly. Like the directors of her school band, where she played the clarinet. \u201cOur band directors really made us feel like we were invincible and we could play anything,\u201d she says. \u201cThere would always be something new in our folders that looked a little bit too hard, but they\u2019d encourage us to take risks.\u201d In high school, Tucker says band meant everything to her. Also, the orchestra, where she played the cello. While every instrument seems to interest Tucker, she recalls her days of clarinet like an affair. \u201cI cheated on piano with clarinet, because I still had this relationship with piano for a while,\u201d she says. \u201cBut also, I was always watching <\/span><em><span>SpongeBob<\/span><\/em><span> and trying to figure out what Squidward was doing. Why does he love this wind instrument so much?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019ve been exploring the concept of non-duality, and the idea of infinity is so relieving because maybe that\u2019s how many emotions I\u2019m allowed to feel. Maybe that\u2019s how many times I\u2019m allowed to make a mistake. Maybe that\u2019s how many chances for miracles there are\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Growing up as an only child in a predominantly white area, Tucker says she always felt like the external world had limits. She was uncomfortable with the idea of being \u201ctoo much\u201d. \u201cIt just kind of seemed like I would reach max capacity, whether that be for emotional freedom or expression,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I would never run out of it with myself, and I would never run out of it through piano. That\u2019s the only time where I felt like I could be completely honest.\u201d Through piano, Tucker remained hopeful that there was more than she could conceive at the time. \u201cI\u2019ve been exploring the concept of non-duality, and the idea of infinity is so relieving because maybe that\u2019s how many emotions I\u2019m allowed to feel,\u201d she adds. \u201cMaybe that\u2019s how many times I\u2019m allowed to make a mistake. Maybe that\u2019s how many chances for miracles there are.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There\u2019s a working theory that Tucker is still exploring: our bodies, as \u201cancient machinery\u201d, hold onto history and memory that can be reactivated when you play the instruments that other humans have played for hundreds of years. It could perhaps explain why young creatives seem to be becoming interested in instruments again, although outside of their classical setting. In recent years, there have been reimagined <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssense.com\/en-us\/men\/product\/vaquera\/black-violin-bag\/18498911\"><span>violin cases coming out from brands like Vaquera<\/span><\/a><span> and harpists playing at fashion week parties. \u201cMaybe the newest aspiration is to not have enough time to be on Instagram because you\u2019re busy having an experience,\u201d says Tucker. Over time, she\u2019s used the piano not only as a tool of expression, but as a tool of communication to either her past or future self, or perhaps a separate realm. \u201cWhen I play, it\u2019s very subconscious for me \u2013 I just get the data out,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>An astrophysicist at her core (she\u2019s an Aquarius and <em>Interstellar<\/em> is her favourite movie at the moment), Tucker tells me she doesn\u2019t know why music is the realm she operates within. It\u2019s something that still puzzles her. \u201cI always tried to resist it, but I was introduced to piano in such a spiritual context, where everyone came together to have an experience,\u201d she says. \u201cI was so drawn to the energy source of the church, which, from my perspective, was the pianos.\u201d These days, she\u2019s still inspired by gospel, but also EDM, metal, \u201ceverything Solange does\u201d, and the weather in Tornado Alley. \u201cI don\u2019t mean to romanticise tornadoes, but I&#8217;ve been really inspired by weather lately, because it\u2019s some of the first data that we get from new planets,\u201d Tucker says. \u201cI\u2019m trying to score what kind of music is making up the wind on Venus.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the future, Tucker wants to get her PhD in planetary science and contribute to scientific research. She also wouldn\u2019t mind retiring as a mathematician. But her relationship with the piano will, of course, still continue. \u201cI just want to practice more,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m taking my own advice when it comes to bravery and risk tolerance that I teach my piano students, so they can see me test out the experiment in real time.\u201d Near the end of our conversation, she showed me her iPhone homescreen. It was a photo of Saturn. \u201cI think my Saturn return is coming, but I have always loved Saturn,\u201d she says. When I asked why, she started listing the spectacular colours and the hexagonal storm at the top. Then, she stopped and added, \u201cI mean, I hope everyone there is okay.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsletter-inline-last\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-small\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h1 class=\"newsletter-title\">Escape the algorithm! 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