Berhana: Fresh Find
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Broken Record is bringing you a Fresh Find this week. We discovered Berhana after a key placement in Donald Glover’s show Atlanta. In this episode, Berhana talks about growing up in the real Atlanta, being first generation American born to Ethiopian parents, recording his newest album in Tokyo and how he started earning enough on music to make a living before he ever played a show.
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| 0:00.0 | What is a city without its music? |
| 0:02.4 | The legacy of the New York Philharmonic is incredible, nearly two centuries of history. |
| 0:07.4 | That's a lot of music and a lot of stories. |
| 0:10.5 | I was sitting on stage for the very first time thinking, |
| 0:13.9 | I can't quite believe this is happening. |
| 0:16.4 | Join me, Jamie Bernstein, as we explore the history of the New York Philharmonic. |
| 0:21.3 | It's the NY Phil story made in New York, |
| 0:24.1 | a podcast about a city, its people and their orchestra. |
| 0:28.0 | Listen wherever you get podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:39.0 | I first heard Berhanna watching Donald Glover's show Atlanta. |
| 0:46.0 | It's one of the few shows I know I'm going to discover new music when I watch it. |
| 0:51.0 | Some tracks don't stand up to repeat listens outside of the show. |
| 0:54.0 | But Berhanna was one of the artists from the second season I kept going back to. |
| 0:59.0 | Berhanna's voice really stands out in modern R&B. |
| 1:02.0 | While pretty much everyone else these days sings with a whispery atmospheric falsetto, |
| 1:06.0 | Berhanna has a crisp tenor and it sounds refreshing. |
| 1:10.0 | Berhanna does a mind being different. |
| 1:12.0 | He's first generation American born in Atlanta to Ethiopian parents. |
| 1:16.0 | So he's always felt a bit out of place anyway. |
| 1:19.0 | Still, he managed to find his people and eventually his sound. |
| 1:23.0 | As you'll hear in this episode, the song you're listening to, Janet, |
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