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American DJ and producer Sky Deep explains the inspiration behind her music, and why she moved to Berlin

todayNovember 11, 2017

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    American DJ and producer Sky Deep explains the inspiration behind her music, and why she moved to Berlin Dina Elsayed

 

For years, people told American DJ and producer Sky Deep that she should go to Berlin. It made her curious, so she planned a tour stop in the city with her band at the time. Now she’s lived in Berlin for three years.

When asked about the current atmosphere in the U.S., Sky Deep said “as a black, queer woman,” she is terrified to return to her home country. She continued, “But I actually experience fear in several places in the world so I don’t think I can escape it.”

Sky Deep joined Monika Müller-Kroll to talk about her involvement with a new festival called We Make Waves as well as the inspiration behind her track, “Coconut Oil.”

Photo Alexa Vachon courtesy Sky Deep.

Written by: Dina Elsayed

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The Barenboim-Said Akademie: promoting political harmony through music-making

  The Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin offers a conservatory education to musicians from the Middle East and North Africa as a way to promote a more peaceful future for a troubled region. Monika Müller-Kroll talks to the rector of the Akademie, Prof. Dr. Michael Naumann. A natural continuation of Daniel Barenboim's and Edward Said's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the Akademie aims to produce a generation of musicians who will "know better" […]

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