Movement with Meklit Hadero
by Meklit Hadero
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"A Song You Can't Sing Alone, ft. Meklit Hadero
"A Song You Can't Sing Alone, ft. Meklit Hadero
About this podcast
Movement is a podcast, radio series and live show that tells stories of global migration through music. Hosted by Ethiopian-American singer Meklit Hadero, the show is a meditation on the large-scale forces at play in individual lives. Issues of citizenship, identity, belonging, and borders are explored through the experiences of artists themselves: two brothers sharing one guitar, a daughter trying on her father’s shoes, the lineage of a drum, and the sounds of a grandmother’s backyard.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 48 episodes
- "A Song You Can't Sing Alone, ft. Meklit Hadero · 10 minOn this final episode of season three, Meklit shares the story of Geefata, a traditional song of celebration rooted in her father’s childhood village and in his journey from the…
- "Keep That Tradition Alive" ft. Kiki Valera · 10 minGRAMMY nominated multi-instrumentalist Kiki Valera was born into family of musicians in Cuba. At 16, he was gifted a book gifted that changed his life. - How To Build A Shortwave…
- "A Rainstorm of Voices" ft. Sahba Aminikia · 14 minToday on Movement, we revisit a story we first recorded in 2021, following Sahba Aminikia - a classically trained Iranian composer, forced to flee the country he called home…
- "The shaming of the tongue" ft. Laura Elkeslassy · 40 minArabic music filled the air of Laura Elkeslassy’s Moroccan Jewish childhood home in Paris, especially on Fridays before Shabbat. But she didn’t grow up speaking Arabic so she…
- "We came from the same groove" ft. Cimafunk · 29 minAfter years of singing backup in Havana, Cuban musician Cimafunk found his own sound by refusing to choose between tradition and innovation. The breakthrough came when he…
- "Who we are when no one is watching" ft. Ali Sethi · 31 minAli Sethi released a song that got so popular, some claim it had the power to unite two countries at war – but his artistic journey all began with a suggestion from a college…
- "We make the boom bap" ft. Ana Tijoux · 30 minWhen you don't feel like you belong to the country you were born in, where do you call home? Born to Chilean exiles in France, rapper Ana Tijoux didn't find home in a place, she…
- “Questioning everything” ft. Lupita Infante · 28 minLupita Infante is the granddaughter of Mexican cultural icon, Pedro Infante, but she is also an artist in her own right, carrying legacies from both sides of her family. Through…
- “I don't tell people I'm a musician” ft. Peter One · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 4Peter One has had two big breaks, decades apart, on different continents. But both times, he has chosen to live a double-life: working as a touring musician and also holding down…
- “Syrians must go back" ft. Omar Offendum · 26 min · Season 3 Episode 3In the early 1900s, the ‘Little Syria’ neighborhood thrived in Lower Manhattan, but today few people know it even existed. Rapper and poet Omar Offendum aims to change that.
- “I sound like an alien to them” ft. Satomi Matsuzaki · 21 minFor Satomi Matsuzaki, the lead singer and bass player in Deerhoof, music has been a humanizing tool in the face of the sometimes dehumanizing experience of being an immigrant…
- “I can speak to my ancestors through this” ft. Lalin St Juste · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 2Lalin St Juste knew, even as a child, that singing was a path towards her own healing. As she grows up, she goes on a journey reclaiming her Haitian heritage – and uses music as…
- "A Really Bad Deal" ft. Annahstasia · 24 min · Season 3 Episode 1The LA-based folk musician Annahstasia was “discovered” by the music industry when she was just 17, but the backing of a label wasn’t the breakthrough she’d imagined. The…
- "Why I was spared" ft. Mon Rovîa · 24 min · Season 2 Episode 15How do we turn pain into empathy? Meklit talks with Liberian-American singer Mon Rovîa about his long journey to doing just that.
- “I’m ready for that transformation” ft. Dayme Arocena · 29 min · Season 2 Episode 2Daymé Arocena has one of the most stunning voices in music today. But when Meklit heard Daymé's latest album, Alkemi, she could tell something dramatic had changed. Her voice had…
- "Syria is finally free" ft. Hello Psychaleppo · 12 min · Season 2 Episode 14Bashar Al Assad, Syria’s brutal dictator, has fled the country -- opening a new and uncertain chapter after more than a decade of Civil War. Meklit speaks with the Syrian…
- "I'm sorry I wasn't here" ft. Diana Gameros · 19 min · Season 2 Episode 13Diana Gameros was living in the US in 2010 when her home city of Juarez, Mexico became known as one of the most dangerous places on Earth. She was undocumented at the time; she…
- "22 Nights" ft Chhom Nimol -- Live on stage · 17 min · Season 2 Episode 12Chhom Nimol of the band Dengue Fever tells the harrowing story of the 22 night she spent in an immigration detention facility.
- "A circle moment" ft. Emel Mathlouthi · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 11Meklit talks with Tunisian singer Emel Mathlouthi about the moment that turned her into a viral sensation and the voice of a revolution -- but also about what it means to move…
- "I've just thrown out the word expectation" ft. Adi Oasis · 22 min · Season 2 Episode 10Adi Oasis released an album and had a baby in the same year -- she thought it would be the end of her music career, but it's been the opposite. Adi and Meklit talk about the…
