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Claiming Our Voices with Machan Taylor
What happens when the voice that takes you to some of the world’s biggest stages is also the one you’re still learning to claim as your own?
Singer, songwriter, educator, and author Machan Taylor has spent a lifetime navigating the space between performance and identity. Born in post-war Japan to a Japanese mother and American father, Machan was uprooted at four years old and brought to New Jersey, leaving behind her language, family, culture, and the only home she knew. Years later, she would recognize that experience as an early trauma that quietly shaped her sense of belonging.
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