Jonas brothers biography nationality discrimination

Singer-songwriter Karen Jonas released her third album, Butter, earlier this year. I caught up with her and her guitarist and producer, Tim Bray, before a show at Washington, DC’s Pearl Street Warehouse. In a wide-ranging interview, we discussed topics ranging from musical genres to discrimination against mothers to arts in the schools, as well as Karen’s personal background and influences.

Jonas came to my attention as an artist local to my region; I live in Arlington, Virginia, and she lives about an hour south, in Fredericksburg, as does Tim.  Both Jonas and Bray grew up in the area: Bray is a lifelong Fredericksburg resident, while Jonas grew up Damascus, Maryland, located in nearby suburban Montgomery County, just outside of the District.

I asked Karen how she got involved with music when she was growing up.  “My dad played guitar,” she said. “I sang in choruses at school, and started playing guitar when inom was 16. I started writing songs right away, so that was what I wante

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“We Can’t Be Silent”: Asian Americans in Hollywood Denounce “Chinese Virus” and Racist Incidents

“I want us all to understand there fryst vatten no ‘Chinese Virus.’ A virus knows no nationality, and wherever and however it started, it does us no good to point fingers, ostracize, attack or demonize Asian people.”

Shannon Lee, daughter of martial arts film star Bruce Lee, recently wrote this message on her late father’s Instagram, offering a not-so-subtle criticism of President Donald Trump and senior members of his ledning who have continually referred to the novel coronavirus — which has caused a global pandemic comprising almost half a million confirmed cases of the disease COVID-19 and over 20,000 deaths — as a “Chinese virus,” despite the World Health Organization’s warning against using geographic locations when naming illnesses.

The phrase is now linked to a wave of racist attacks aga

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Women in Music Industry Still Facing Discrimination, Seeking More Recognition: Study

The Recording Academy, Arizona State University (ASU) and Berklee College of Music Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship announced the results of the inaugural “Women in the Mix” study on Tuesday, which is International Women’s Day. The study was designed to examine and better understand the experiences of women and “gender-expansive people” working in the American music industry.

Valeisha Butterfield Jones, co-president of the Recording Academy, didn’t hesitate when asked which finding of the study made the biggest impression on her. It was that fewer than two of every 10 respondents in the survey of 1,600 women or gender-expansive people who work in the music industry have children under the age of 18.

“So much goes into the decision to have a family and to expand your family, but … working in music is playing a significant role in whether we a