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  • Leonard Pitts, Jr

    VIA THE INTEGRATED GLOBAL
    CREATIVE ECONOMY

    inspired by
    THE GRAPEVINE TELEGRAPH
    of Pre-Civil War African-Americans

    promulgated by
    The Brazilian Ministry of Culture

    fomented by
    The Bahian Secretary of Culture

    fomented by
    The Palmares Foundation
    for the promotion of Afro-Brazilian Culture

    fomented by
    The National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples

    I CURATE

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  • Name: Leonard Pitts, Jr
  • City/Place: Bowie, Maryland
  • Country: United States
  • Hometown: Los Angeles

CURATION

  • from this node by: Matrix

Life & Work

  • Bio: You know how kids go through phases? You know how the average little boy or girl wants to be a doctor this week, a video game designer next week? Leonard Pitts, Jr. never did that.

    He says that from the tender age of five years old – little more than a “fetus with pretensions,” as he puts it – he knew what wanted to do. Indeed, he knew what he was put here to do. We are talking about a very long time ago: when Leonard Pitts was five, John F. Kennedy was still in the White House, “Whites Only” signs were still on the walls, and the Beatles had not yet invaded America.

    The world has changed a great deal since then. But one thing never did.

    In a career that now spans 43 years, Leonard Pitts, Jr. has worked as a columnist, a college professor, a radio producer and a lecturer. But those are just the job titles. If you ask him what he does – what he is – he’ll tell you now what he would have told you then.

    He is a writer.

    Millions of people are glad he is. They read him every week in one of the most popular newspaper columns in the country. Many more have come to know him through a series of critically-acclaimed books, including his latest, a novel of race, faith and World War II called The Last Thing You Surrender.

    Pitts’ stubborn devotion to the art and craft of words has yielded many awards, chief among them the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

    But that was only the capstone of a career filled with prizes for literary excellence. In 1997, Pitts took first place for commentary in division four (newspapers with a circulation of over 300,000) in the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors' Ninth Annual Writing Awards competition. He is a three-time recipient of the National Association of Black Journalists’ Award of Excellence, and was chosen NABJ’s 2008 Journalist of the Year. He is a five-time recipient of the Atlantic City Press Club’s National Headliners Award and a seven-time recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Green Eyeshade Award. In 2001, he received the American Society of Newspaper Editors prestigious Award For Commentary Writing and was named Feature of the Year in the column writing division by Editor and Publisher magazine. In 2002, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists awarded Pitts its inaugural Columnist of the Year award; in 2016, it named him to its Hall of Fame. In 2002 and in 2009, GLAAD Media awarded Pitts the Outstanding Newspaper Columnist award. In 2017, he was awarded the prestigious Missouri Honor Medal for “distinguished service to journalism.” He has received four honorary doctorates.

    Pitts’ work has made him an in-demand lecturer. He maintains a rigorous speaking schedule that has taken him to colleges, civic groups and professional associations all over the country. He has also taught at a number of institutions of higher learning, including Hampton University, Ohio University, the University of Maryland, and Virginia Commonwealth University. In the fall of 2011, he was a visiting professor at Princeton, teaching a course in writing about race.

    Twice each week, millions of newspaper readers around the country seek out his rich and uncommonly resonant voice. In a word, he connects with them. Nowhere was this demonstrated more forcefully than in the response to his initial column on the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Pitts' column, "We'll Go Forward From This Moment," an angry and defiant open letter to the terrorists, circulated the globe via the Internet. It generated upwards of 30,000 emails, and has since been set to music, reprinted in poster form, read on television by Regis Philbin and quoted by Congressman Richard Gephardt as part of the Democratic Party's weekly radio address.

    Tavis Smiley called Leonard Pitts “the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.”

    And when Pitts won his Pulitzer, Bob Costas wondered, “What took them so long?”

    Leonard Pitts was born and raised in Southern California. He was awarded a degree in English from the University of Southern California at the age of 19, having entered school at 15 on a special honors program. Since 1995, he and his wife have lived in Bowie, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D. C.

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  • Email: [email protected]
  • Management/Booking: For speaking engagements, contact:
    www.apbspeakers.com
    www.booksincommon.org

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  • English (Portuguese →)
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English (Portuguese →)

 

IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT
The Matrix Mission was Born in Brazil, but It Embraces the Entire World

Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles — jungle and desert and dense urban centers — both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn.

 

Brazil absorbed over ten times the number of enslaved Africans taken to the United States of America, and is a repository of African deities (and their music) now largely forgotten in their lands of origin (Bahia's Bay of All Saints received more enslaved human beings than any other final port-of-call throughout all of human history).

 

Brazil was a refuge (of sorts) for Sephardim fleeing an Inquisition which followed them across the Atlantic (that unofficial symbol of Brazil's national music — the pandeiro — was almost certainly brought to Brazil by these people).

 

Across the parched savannas of the interior of Brazil's culturally fecund nordeste/northeast, where wizard Hermeto Pascoal was born in Lagoa da Canoa (Lagoon of the Canoe) and raised in Olho d'Águia (Eye of the Eagle), much of Brazil's aboriginal population was absorbed into a caboclo/quilombola culture punctuated by the Star of David.

 

Three cultures — from three continents — running for their lives, their confluence forming a scintillatingly unprecedented fourth. Pandeirista on the roof. Nowhere else but here.

 


The matrix is the ultimate evolution of a pathway which began in New York City decades ago per the "rescue" of unpaid royalties, performance & mechanicals, for artists burned by major labels: Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Led Zeppelin, Philip Glass, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd of Kingston's Studio One (Bob Marley's producer; I made a copy of his original contract with Bob to take to CBS Records to argue; Bob was 17 when he signed and his aunt co-signed)...
...Funk Brother Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin) and others. A long and winding road that led inexorably to the necessity of a truly open arts universe, for there is more in Heaven and Earth...

 

"I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
✅—Susan Rogers
Personal recording engineer: Prince, Paisley Park
Director: Music Perception & Cognition Laboratory, Berklee College of Music
Author: This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

 


If you're arriving from the Guardian article 10 best music radio stations around the world, →Matrix Radio is here←

The matrix was created above in Salvador's Centro Histórico (interview is with David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio), where Bule Bule around the corner in the clip below, among magisterial colleagues for whom this matrix was originally built (it's now open to all in the Global Creative Economy) sings, "Chegou a hora dessa gente bronzeada mostrar seu valor... The time has come for these bronzed people to show their worth..."

...the endeavor motivated in the first instance by the fact that in common with most cultures around our planet, the preponderance of Brazil's vast cultural treasure has been impossible to find from outside of circumscribed regions, including Brazil itself...

Music & lyrics (Brasil Pandeiro) by Assis Valente of Santo Amaro, Bahia, Brazil. Video by Betão Aguiar of Salvador.

Thus something new under the tropical sun: A means by which those above, those below, and EVERYBODY ELSE in the creative economy can be divulged EVERYWHERE.

Quincy Jones can curate Gilberto Gil, for example. Gil can curate, writers, dancers, filmmakers, painters, record producers, set designers... He can curate Luê Soares of Belém do Pará, behind the mic above. Quincy doesn't have to know Luê exists to help make her discoverable, or anybody else ... it's in the matrix DNA.

For by the seemingly magical mathematics of the small world phenomenon, all in the matrix will tend to proximity to all others, in the same way that most human beings are within some six or so steps of most others.

The difference being that in the matrix, these steps are along pathways that can be travelled. The creative world becomes a neighborhood. Quincy Jones is right up the street and Branford Marsalis around the corner. And the most far-flung genius you've never heard of is just a few doors down. Maybe even in Brazil. Laroyê!
"Matrixado!"

✅—Founding Member Darius Mans
Economist, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
✅—Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
President of Brazil

"Many thanks for this - I am  touched!"
✅—Julian Lloyd Webber

That most fabled cellist in the United Kingdom (and Brazilian music fan)

"I'm truly thankful... Sohlangana ngokuzayo :)"
✅—Nduduzo Makhathini
Blue Note recording artist)

"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
✅—Alicia Svigals
Founder of The Klezmatics

"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
✅—Clarice Assad
Compositions recorded by Yo Yo Ma and played by orchestras around the world

"Thank you"
(Banch Abegaze, manager)
✅—Kamasi Washington

Tap people, tap categories, tap curations... The matrix is a maze of tunnels within King Solomon's creative mines.

(← Inglês) Português

 

SE VOCÊ NÃO AGUENTA O CALOR
A Missão Matrix Nasceu no Brasil, mas Abraça o Mundo Inteiro

O Brasil não é uma nação européia. Não é uma nação norte-americana. Não é uma nação do leste asiático. Compreende — selva e deserto e centros urbanos densos — tanto o equador quanto o Trópico de Capricórnio.

 

O Brasil absorveu mais de dez vezes o número de africanos escravizados levados para os Estados Unidos da América, e é um repositório de divindades africanas (e sua música) agora em grande parte esquecido em suas terras de origem (a Baía de Todos os Santos recebeu mais seres humanos escravizados do que qualquer outro porto de escala final ao longo de toda a história humana).

 

O Brasil era um refúgio (de certa forma) para os sefarditas que fugiam de uma Inquisição que os seguia através do Atlântico (aquele símbolo não oficial da música nacional brasileira — o pandeiro — foi quase certamente trazido ao Brasil por esse povo).

 

Através das savanas ressequidas do interior do culturalmente fecundo nordeste, onde o mago Hermeto Pascoal nasceu na Lagoa da Canoa e cresceu em Olho d'Águia, uma grande parte da população aborígine do Brasil foi absorvida por uma cultura caboclo/quilombola pontuada pela Estrela de Davi.

 
Três culturas - de três continentes - correndo por suas vidas, sua confluência formando uma quarta cintilante e sem precedentes. Pandeirista no telhado. Em nenhum outro lugar a não ser aqui.

 


O matrix é a evolução definitiva de um caminho que começou em Nova York há décadas atrás pelo "resgate" dos direitos autorais não pagos para Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Led Zeppelin, Philip Glass, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd do Studio One de Kingston (o produtor de Bob Marley; Eu fiz uma cópia de seu contrato original com Bob para levar à CBS Records para discutir; Bob tinha 17 anos quando assinou e sua tia co-assinou)...
...Funk Brother Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin) e outros. Um longo e sinuoso caminho que levou inexoravelmente à necessidade de um universo de artes verdadeiramente aberto, pois há mais no Céu e na Terra...

"Fico muitíssimo feliz em receber seu e-mail! Obrigada por me incluir neste matrix maravilhoso."
✅—Susan Rogers
Engenheiro de gravação pessoal para Prince: Paisley Park
Diretora: Laboratório de Percepção e Cognição Musical, Berklee College of Music
Autora: This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

 


Se você está chegando do artigo do jornal britânico The Guardian "10 best music radio stations around the world", →a Rádio Matrix está aqui←

O matrix foi criado no Centro Histórico de Salvador (entrevista é com David Dye para a Rádio Público Nacional dos EUA), onde Bule Bule no clipe abaixo, entre colegas magisteriais para quem este matrix foi originalmente construído (está aberto agora a todos na Economia Criativa Global) canta, "Chegou a hora dessa gente bronzeada mostrar seu valor..."

...o empreendimento motivado na primeira instância pelo fato de que em comum com a maioria das culturas ao redor do nosso planeta, a preponderância do vasto tesouro cultural do Brasil tem sido impossível de encontrar fora de regiões circunscritas, incluindo o próprio Brasil.

Música & letras (Brasil Pandeiro) por Assis Valente de Santo Amaro, Bahia. Vídeo por Betão Aguiar de Salvador.

Assim algo novo sob o sol tropical: Um meio pelo qual os acima, os abaixo e TODOS OS OUTROS na economia criativa podem ser divulgados em TODOS OS LUGARES.

Quincy Jones pode indicar Gilberto Gil, por exemplo. Gil pode indicar escritores, dançarinos, cineastas, pintores, produtores de discos... Ele pode indicar Luê Soares de Belém do Pará, atrás do microfone acima. Quincy não precisa saber que Luê existe para ajudá-la a ser descoberta, ou qualquer outra pessoa ... está no DNA do matrix.

Pela matemática aparentemente mágica do fenômeno do mundo pequeno, todos no matrix tenderão a se aproximar de todos, da mesma forma que a maioria dos seres humanos estão dentro de cerca de seis passos da maioria dos outros.

Com a diferença que no matrix, estes passos estão ao longo de caminhos que podem ser percorridos. O mundo criativo se torna uma vizinhança. Quincy Jones está lá em cima e Branford Marsalis está ao virar da esquina. E o gênio distante que você nunca ouviu falar tá lá embaixo. Talvez até no Brasil. Laroyê!
"Matrixado!"

✅—Membro Fundador Darius Mans
Economista, doutorado, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
✅—Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Presidente do Brasil

"Muito obrigado por isso - estou tocado!"
✅—Julian Lloyd Webber
Estamos tocados também Sr. Webber!
Merecidamente o violoncelista mais lendário do Reino Unido (e fã da música brasileira)

"Estou realmente agradecido... Sohlangana ngokuzayo :)"
✅—Nduduzo Makhathini
Artista da Blue Note)

"Obrigada, esta é uma ideia brilhante!!"
✅—Alicia Svigals
Fundadora do The Klezmatics

"Este é um trabalho super impressionante! Parabéns! Obrigada por me incluir :)))"
✅—Clarice Assad
Composições gravadas por Yo Yo Ma e tocadas por orquestras ao redor do mundo

"Thank you"
(Banch Abegaze, empresário)
✅—Kamasi Washington

Toque em pessoas, toque em categorias, toque em curadoria... O matrix é um labirinto de túneis dentro das minas criativas do Rei Salomão.

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  • Frank Beacham Playwright
  • MonoNeon Singer-Songwriter
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  • Imani Winds New York City
  • Thiago Amud Singer-Songwriter
  • Peter Dasent Piano
  • Martin Koenig Photographer
  • As Ganhadeiras de Itapuã Bahia
  • Brian Cross aka B+ Brazilian Music
  • Vincent Herring Manhattan School of Music Faculty
  • Ben Hazleton Tabla
  • Jorge Aragão Rio de Janeiro
  • Pedrão Abib Brasil, Brazil
  • Jakub Józef Orliński Warsaw
  • Ron Miles Composer
  • Mickalene Thomas Installation Artist
  • Amaro Freitas Composer
  • Maria Nunes Photographer
  • Garth Cartwright DJ
  • Dudu Reis Salvador
  • Ben Harper Soul
  • John Morrison Music Journalist
  • Swami Jr. Brazilian Jazz
  • Ron Mader Travel Specialist
  • J. Velloso Salvador
  • Matt Glaser Fiddle
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  • Michael Peha Keyboards
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  • Lolis Eric Elie Journalist
  • Ronald Bruner Jr. Record Producer
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  • Richard Galliano Bandoneon
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  • Stormzy UK
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  • Serwah Attafuah NFTs
  • Brian Jackson Composer
  • Christopher James New York City
  • Bob Mintzer Jazz
  • Laura Cole R&B
  • Paulinha Cavalcanti Cavaquinho
  • Lazzo Matumbi Salvador
  • Angel Deradoorian Los Angeles
  • Merima Ključo Balkan Music
  • Fernanda Bezerra Brasil, Brazil
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  • Seu Jorge MPB
  • Ivo Perelman Brazil
  • Kiko Loureiro Finland
  • Jimmy Cliff Jamaica
  • Brian Cox Writer
  • Tom Schnabel Author
  • Ken Coleman Essayist
  • Galactic New Orleans
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  • Rory Marx Anderson Filmmaker
  • Léo Rodrigues Brazil
  • Curly Strings Tallinn
  • Luiz Santos Rio de Janeiro
  • Nduduzo Makhathini South Africa
  • Menelaw Sete Brasil, Brazil
  • Gino Sorcinelli Journalist
  • Carlos Blanco Compositor, Composer
  • Paulinho do Reco Salvador
  • Michelle Burford Editor
  • Zeca Freitas Saxophone
  • Isaiah Sharkey Chicago
  • Chano Domínguez Brooklyn, NY
  • Gino Sorcinelli Music Production, Rapping, Sampling, Beatmaking
  • Margaret Renkl Writer
  • Thalma de Freitas Rio de Janeiro
  • Shana Redmond Singer
  • Adriano Souza Bossa Nova
  • VJ Gabiru Fotógrafo, Photographer
  • Leci Brandão Pandeiro
  • Don Byron Clarinet
  • Keshav Batish Santa Cruz, California
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  • Jon Madof Record Producer
  • Roy Ayers Composer
  • Eric Roberson Keyboards
  • Mokhtar Samba Percussion
  • John Zorn Record Label Owner
  • Danilo Caymmi Samba
  • Daniel Owoseni Ajala Ballet School Owner
  • Nikole Hannah -Jones Journalist
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  • Mino Cinélu Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Darren Barrett Jazz
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  • Jeff Spitzer-Resnick Education Law
  • Richie Barshay Jazz
  • June Yamagishi Guitar
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  • Sean Jones Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute Faculty
  • Gino Banks Mumbai
  • José Antonio Escobar Santiago de Chile
  • Jon Batiste Multi-Instrumentalist
  • The Umoza Music Project London
  • Nailor Proveta Saxophone
  • Edu Lobo MPB
  • Makaya McCraven Composer
  • Orlando Costa Rio de Janeiro
  • Alita Moses Singer-Songwriter
  • David Sánchez Jazz
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Television Producer
  • Jess Gillam Contemporary Classical Music
  • Carlinhos 7 Cordas Rio de Janeiro
  • Rachel Aroesti Writer
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  • Anderson Lacerda Choro
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  • Hisham Mayet Record Label Owner
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  • Ken Coleman Reporter
  • Alberto Pitta Brasil, Brazil
  • Marc Maron Guitar
  • Sônia Guajajara Servidor Público, Public Servant
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  • Dan Moretti Saxophone
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  • Walmir Lima Salvador
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  • Raelis Vasquez Drawings
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  • Bill Laurance Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Sierra Hull Singer-Songwriter
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  • Miles Mosley Los Angeles
  • Aubrey Johnson Berklee Faculty
  • Steve Lehman Saxophone Instructor
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  • Chris Cheek New School Faculty
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  • Vivien Schweitzer Photographer
  • Gian Correa Composer
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  • Jaques Morelenbaum Brazil
  • Aubrey Johnson Queens College Faculty
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  • Art Rosenbaum Muralist
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  • Yunior Terry Bass
  • Avishai Cohen אבישי כה Bass
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  • Mark Bingham Guitar
  • Jovino Santos Neto Flute
  • Alex Clark Columbia Journalism School Faculty
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  • Renee Rosnes Piano
  • Renato Braz Guitar
  • Roosevelt Collier Lap Steel Guitar
  • Imani Winds Multi-Cultural
  • Pururu Mão no Couro Samba
  • Derrick Hodge Jazz
  • Will Holshouser Jazz
  • Cory Henry Singer-Songwriter
  • Roosevelt Collier Pedal Steel Guitar
  • Anthony Hamilton Record Producer
  • David Castillo Trumpet
  • Jorge Washington AfroChef
  • Art Rosenbaum Folk & Traditional
  • Woz Kaly Singer-Songwriter
  • Archie Shepp Singer
  • Janine Jansen Classical Music
  • Jeff Parker Composer
  • Linda May Han Oh New York City
  • Adriano Souza Choro
  • Ricardo Bacelar Ceará
  • Jaques Morelenbaum Film Scores
  • Capinam Letrista, Lyricist
  • Mestre Barachinha Caboclo de Lança
  • Emicida Rapper
  • Tonynho dos Santos Guitarra, Violão, Guitar
  • Kevin Hays Piano Instruction
  • Michelle Burford New York City
  • Will Holshouser Musette
  • Chick Corea Contemporary Classical Music
  • Eric R. Danton Writer
  • Dorothy Berry African American History
  • Lula Moreira Maracatu
  • Fatoumata Diawara Paris
  • Yamandu Costa Guitar
  • Tomoko Omura Violin
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  • Nath Rodrigues Singer-Songwriter
  • Peter Slevin Northwestern University Faculty
  • Daru Jones Jazz
  • Herlin Riley Northwestern University Bienen School of Music Faculty
  • Matt Glaser Composer
  • Keb' Mo' Nashville, Tennessee
  • Bejun Mehta Berlin
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  • Ian Hubert VFX Artist
  • Igor Osypov Ukraine
  • Joshua Abrams Theater Scores
  • Banning Eyre Guitar
  • Mário Pam Brazil
  • Sam Wasson Author
  • Brenda Navarrete Percussion
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  • Nana Nkweti Short Stories
  • Oswaldinho do Acordeon Accordion
  • Alfredo Del-Penho Brazil
  • Colm Tóibín Novelist
  • Lauren Martin Writer
  • Bernardo Aguiar Rio de Janeiro
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  • Leandro Afonso Film Producer
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  • Miles Okazaki Author
  • Zé Katimba Brazil
  • Celino dos Santos Brazil
  • Corey Harris Singer-Songwriter
  • Alex Mesquita Bahia
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  • Amy K. Bormet Composer
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  • Béco Dranoff DJ
  • Mazz Swift Violin
  • Berkun Oya Istanbul
  • Zisl Slepovitch Clarinet
  • Tim Hittle Director
  • Jorge Glem Mandolin
  • Alicia Keys Art Collector
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  • J. Cunha Figurinista, Costume Designer
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  • Jeff Tweedy Singer-Songwriter
  • João Luiz Choro
  • Alessandro Penezzi Choro
  • Clint Mansell Film Scores
  • Derek Sivers Guitar
  • Vijay Gupta Classical Music
  • Jeff Preiss Filmmaker
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