Artist Journeys
It’s not just about how they got here. It’s also about where they’re going next.
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Lost Everything, but Now I’m Thriving!
Excited, my girlfriend and I hop out of the Uber and grab our bags. It was our second time in Austin, but I don’t think either of us thought we’d be back for SXSW. Also, I don’t think she had…
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Green Room Stories Presents | Thutmose
23-year-old rapper/singer/songwriter Thutmose joins Green Room Stories for an exclusive video feature. Born Umar Ibrahim in Nigeria, Thutmose and his family moved to Brooklyn in his youth, where he still lives today. In his story, Thutmose details his early experiences…
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The Deep Sea Diver Episode
I never used to think I was complicated. In fact, I thought everybody else was more complicated than myself. I felt in control, I felt strong. My creativity was in full bloom; I mean, I was writing songs in Los…
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My Journey Back to Music
When the revelation of my diagnosis hit me, I wasn’t in a hospital room and I wasn’t sitting motionless on an examination table with a doctor asking me if I had heard him. I was home. I was in the…
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My Experience at Standing Rock
I wrote “Tears I Can’t Hold Inside” in Los Angeles in January 2018, after I was forced to return to the United States from Paris (where I currently live) to await trial and see if I would be spending the…
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What It’s Like To Be Managed By Your Boyfriend: A Test of The Ego
Hi. My name is Cassandra, but you may or may not know me as the artist, KALLITECHNIS. What you also may not know about me is that I’m managed by my boyfriend. Now, you’re either reading this thinking, “cute” or…
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Finding Light After Darkness
A couple years ago I found myself in an extremely dark place at the college of my dreams. During my fourth, and final, semester at Berklee College of Music everything moved in slow motion. My winter break, right before the…
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Letter to My Younger Self: “Life” After “GHOST”
Hi Reece, It’s November 5, 2014, today is the day that will ultimately change the course of your life, but you don’t know it yet. You’re still at home with your parents, just graduated high school, and more confused than…
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The Art of Being Human
Keep in mind: we are all potentially “artists” as well as “technicians.” Artists are those among us capable of having great feelings, with the additional creative ability to express these feelings in works of art (or artifacts). It’s important, not…
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You Are What You Eat From Your Head To Your Beat
I have two incurable diseases: one physical and one mental. My physical disease limits my ability to swallow. My mental disease is that I swallow too much, I let myself take on the world with no room for respite. Music…
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