Hyphenated: Music + Identity

<p>Meral Polat was focused on her successful acting career until she received a letter with a poem from her father in response to her question: “What does it mean for you to be human?” This poem would eventually led her...

<p>Just a brief note, we'll be dropping three new episodes every two weeks, and if all goes well, there will be a few more after that before the summer break. Thank you all for tuning in, subscribing, and sharing this...

<p>Welcome to a very special holiday edition of Hyphenated. </p><p>As it's the season of giving, we're dropping a new episode featuring Youka Snell of the band Mitsune.</p><p>But in return, you have to give something...

<p>Just a quick note.... We'll be taking a break for the next month as I settle into my new apartment and record some new episodes. Be sure to subscribe so you will be alerted of the latest episodes. See you...

<p>Laíz likes to say "she carries many nations on her back." And what she means is that she has absorbed influences from around the globe which has helped her build a wide and all-encompassing worldview. However, she...

<p>Welcome to Season 2 of Hyphenated. </p><p>When I thought of creating this audio documentary series, I had no idea if anybody out there would be interested. Yet I felt it an important subject to explore. </p><p>And...

<p>Just a brief note before we begin this episode. As noted in the last post, I've been a bit overwhelmed with moving and also had complications with booking the next couple of artists. And so I fell behind in my goal...

<p>This is Hyphenated, and I'm your host Ron Deutsch. <br/><br/>I regret to tell you that there is no episode this week. I spent the last month moving, and I'm still in the process of it all, and so I fell behind in the...

<p>Carol Luna's father was a political prisoner in 1970's Uruguay. He was given an opportunity to leave the country and move his family to Sweden. A year later, Caro (aka Caroline) was born. Because her father's...

<p>Paolo thought of himself as 100% Italian, but coming from a Sicilian father and Moroccan mother, he still saw something other than that in the mirror. He began his career making pop music, but, in 2020, after buying...

<p>Ganna was born just a few months before the collapse of the Soviet era in a small village in Ukraine. As she grew up, she watched as neighbors, friends, and relatives all left to go west. Eventually her family joined...

<p>Luzia was born of Angolan parents living in Poland during the communist era. When she was five, the family returned to Angola where Luzia found herself surrounded by children who looked like her but didn't see her as...

<p>Two violin students - Marvin from France and Akram from Tunisia - live next door to each in Belgium and hear each other practicing. Finally, Marvin decides to knock on Akram's door and introduce himself. They quickly...

<p>Sevana Tchakerian was born and raised in Paris, a child of the Armenian diaspora. She began taking music lessons at three and eventually received a master's degree from the Sorbonne in musicology. But while her...

<p>For our first episode I'm honored to introduce you to Angolan-French musician Lucia de Carvalho. Lucia was born in war torn Angola. At the age of six her mother took her and two of her sisters to Portugal where they...