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Child of Exile: Dani Cornejo Turns Memory, Resistance and Healing Into Music
On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sat down with artist, musician and scholar Dani Cornejo to discuss his new album, Child of Exile, a deeply personal project shaped by family history, Indigenous identity, Oakland and the political power of Hip Hop. Created slowly over the course of a decade, the album survived multiple political eras and a global pandemic, allowing Cornejo to repeatedly revisit its writing, production and instrumentation. “The process was incredibly healing,” he explained, describing music-making as a meditative practice rather than simply a means of producing content for the…
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