Music|Making Music Visible: Singing in Sign
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/arts/music/asl-music-deaf-culture.html
Brandon Kazen-Maddox signing “relationship” as part of an A.S.L. interpretation of the song “Midnight Train to Georgia.”Credit...Justin Kaneps for The New York Times
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Making Music Visible: Singing in Sign
A new project is producing sign language covers of 10 seminal musical works recorded by Black female artists.
Brandon Kazen-Maddox signing “relationship” as part of an A.S.L. interpretation of the song “Midnight Train to Georgia.”Credit...Justin Kaneps for The New York Times
April 9, 2021
On a recent afternoon in a brightly lit studio in Brooklyn, Mervin Primeaux-O’Bryant and Brandon Kazen-Maddox were filming a music video. They were recording a cover version of “Midnight Train to Georgia,” but the voices that filled the room were those of Gladys Knight and the Pips, who made the song a hit in the 1970s. And yet the two men in the studio were also singing — with their hands.