On a sunny spring day I drove through the Catskill Mountains to visit my friend Uman at her South Pearl Street studio in downtown Albany. Her eight thousand square foot studio building was filled with paintings, drawings, painted objects, mannequins, fabrics, boxes of oil sticks, brushes and paint, and new glass sculptures that had just arrived in crates from San Francisco. Several workers were busy in the woodshop staining and making frames for new paintings. Her friend and studio manager, Joey Perez, helped with myriad details.
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Once again we witness the power of music and its ability to transcend any language barriers. Music is universal!
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It is also notoriously difficult for SA artists to break out into the international music industry, although there have been local acts that have been able to make it through these invisible barriers, especially in the last few years. (Yes, we re all thinking it - Master KG.)
Now it seems like there is another locally born trend making its way across the seas. To America to be exact.