Articles
Rihanna’s Successful Cultural Fluidity in her Music from Embracing her Foreign Dialect
It is more than obvious that today’s music plays a major role in cultural fluidity. Rihanna is one of many artists whose music speaks to various cultures while bringing them together. Rihanna’s Background Pop star Rihanna was born on Feb. […]
BLACKPINK Makes Surprising Global Moves
BLACKPINK is a K-Pop girl group who made it big in the United States around 2018 after signing with Interscope Records. The group consists of four young women; Jisoo (vocalist), Jennie (rapper/vocalist), Rosè (dancer/vocalist), and Lisa (rapper/dancer/vocalist). Surprisingly, Jisoo is […]
How Nissim Black Changes the Music Game with Orthodox Jewish Rap
Nissim Black has used rap music to explore his varying identities his entire life, especially as he searched for religion and navigated his life in Israel. Black is an Orthodox Jewish rapper from Seattle, Wash. who currently lives in Jerusalem […]
Gregory Alan Isakov: His Unique Immigrant Status And The Concept of Home
Singer-songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov is famous for his earthy tones and wistful lyrics that seem to slow down time. The concept of “home” constantly frequents his songs, the melodies and words exuding a folksy, almost ethereal feel, which earned him […]
Cultural Fluidity Is How Shakira Gained Fans Around The World
Shakira’s culturally fluid background influences the way she writes, produces and sings the music she creates for the world to hear. Not only does she have a fan base in her passport country of Colombia, but she also has fans […]
Connection amid the Chaos – Emerging from the stress of 2020
6 MINUTE READ The chaos of 2020 has forced us to reckon with centuries of structural injustice. Although we can see the light of hope shining through the cracks, the process of tearing down and rebuilding is as uncertain as […]
The amazing life purpose and dying art of Kashmir Stone Carvers
3 MINUTE READ Story and photos by Mudabbir Ahmad Tak Man is tough. Some men are anyway — strong and resilient and stubborn and with the will to break the hardest of stones and carve them into different shapes. It […]

















