Music
How M.I.A.’s Past as a Refugee Fuels Her Present
The British rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer and activist Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam MBE, stage name M.I.A., was born in Hounslow, United Kingdom. As an artist, she doesn’t shy away from including her past as a Sri Lankan refugee and beliefs in […]
Yoko Ono: The turbulent life of a famous artist
Music is a place where people share their life experiences and the emotions they feel at a certain time and place. Music is one of the many fields that a Third Culture Kid (TCK) can use to express their life story and journey. […]
Regina Spektor: Language as a Means of Love
Singer-songwriter Regina Spektor has defined her career through lingual mobility similar to how her childhood was defined by cultural mobility. Spektor was born in the Soviet Union to Russian-Jewish artists Ilya and Bella Spektor in 1980. According to All Music, […]
Yoko Ono: The Life and Personal Struggles Behind the Art
Yoko Ono is the world’s most famous unknown artist — most notably because of her third husband. She fell in love with one of the world’s most famous men: John Lennon, a member of The Beatles, a British band. Ono […]
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. […]
Up and Coming Spanish Singer-Songwriter RosalÃa
Rosalia Vila Tobella, known by her stage-name RosalÃa, is a Spanish singer-songwriter from Barcelona, Spain. Tobella is known for her Flamenco and Latin style music, and surpassed over 500 million streams on her song “Con Altura.” The singer-songwriter has several […]
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 […]















