Kool Kojak Still Looks at Worcester As Home

Radio Worcester’s Talk of the Commonwealth · Oct 13, 2026 · 28m

Worcester-born multidisciplinary artist Kool Kojak sits down for a wide-ranging conversation about his decades-long career spanning music production, graffiti art, film scoring, and mentorship. Born at Hahnemann Hospital in 1972 and raised in Worcester, Kojak graduated from Doherty High School before heading to UMass Amherst and eventually making his way to New York City in 1994 in pursuit of music. There, a chance encounter with a Brazilian punk-bossa nova band led him to Sao Paulo, where a song he produced sold an estimated 16 million pirated copies on the streets of Rio and Sao Paulo…