Fowl Play

”One of my mother’s favorite works is Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. I can imagine looking again into the eyes of my bird in a cage and seeing heaven’s plea- knowing the divine design is for flight, but there exist both real and false impositions and circumstances that prevent it…”

— from Medium

A Voice That Feels Like Home

“She warmed me up with familiar pentatonic and scale exercises, and I remember how eager and excited she was to take me on as a student despite how inconsistent and unpolished I was then. Sra. de la O explained that she had a group of Puerto Rican musicians called Música de Cámara, and she told me that when I was ready to do so, I would be performing with them.”

— from Cento Voices