About This Series

Hyphenated: Music + Identity is an audio documentary series about immigrant and second generation immigrant musicians in the EU navigating their "hyphenated" identity through their music.

In recent years, in interviews I've done with what I call "hyphenated artists" – that being musicians with a hyphen between their identities – such as Haitian-Canadian, Nigerian-British, or Angolan-French – there has been a reoccurring topic of conversation about the issues they face in trying define themselves in their new home, how they search to understand who they are, how others perceive them, and especially how this journey influences the music they create.

Also, as one might expect, their music is a reflection of who they are. Therefore don't expect their music to fit neatly into one genre or another. There's no single checkbox for either these artist or their music. It's about borders and frontiers, both within themselves and their music.  

So the mission of Hyphenated: Music + Identity is to put some light on these artists, give them space to tell their story, and to introduce you, the listener, to new music, and perhaps new perspectives on the world.