Soulful.
That’s the main word that Glenn Suravech uses when asked to describe the evocative sound of his band’s lead singer.
“You can take a lot for granted,” the guitarist-composer says. “But as we’re finishing our second album I’m reminded about how fortunate we are to have ...
In 1913 Hawai‘i, three young sisters suffering from tuberculosis are sent to an orphanage. Only one survives—and she finds herself haunted by the ghosts of her siblings.
“I heard about Alice from a great shiatsu master, a strapping man in his early forties, while he worked on me,” Allen Say recalls. “I had been coaching the shy man in the art of asking women for dates; when he finally did get a date, the woman turned out ...
“Music is emotion,” says Dave Iwataki.
“My strongest, early influence was Herbie Hancock,” the veteran arranger/composer/keyboardist notes. “I aspired to play, write and evolve like him. I felt he had the gift for putting true emotion into music.”
“This woman came up to me and said, ‘I don’t know why, but I just burst out crying when you were playing taiko,’” Jeanne Aiko Mercer says.
As a leading member of the Grammy Award-winning rock band Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda knows something about fame. But he believes that he’s learned the most about fame by studying famous people he’s never heard of.
Beside the blue waters of a Los Angeles reservoir, Kiyoshi Graves found a long-hidden path.
It may be years before he learns where it leads. But following it has changed his life.
On his first day at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, Paul Dateh -- who had been studying classical violin since the age of four -- abruptly dropped his major in Violin Performance.
"What initially catches my interest in any story is the story itself—its characters, its setting, its suspense and drama, its connection to events that are much larger than the story," says author John Christgau.
Tak Toyoshima's Asian American-themed comic strip, Secret Asian Man, is now nationally syndicated in major newspapers across the United States.
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