Jamala: Qirim

Jamala: Qirim

February 28, 2024

Raising Her Voice Listening Post 378. Often faulted for kitsch, the Eurovision Song Contest achieved gravitas in 2016 when organizers stood up to Russian protests over Ukraine’s winning entry, 1944, about Stalin’s deportation of 200,000 Crimean Tatars to central Asia...
Zoë: Debut Deluxe

Zoë: Debut Deluxe

January 3, 2017

The Divine Miss Z Listening Post 80. The last native German speaker to capture millions of hearts in France was Marlene Dietrich, but the Austrian singer-songwriter Zoë Straub (her voice crystalline to Dietrich’s smoky) just may have the artistry and attitude to do a...