Best of Design Matters: Toshi Reagon

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Shaped by music and activism, Toshi Reagon reflects on her upbringing and remarkable career writing, playing, singing, and producing music.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	This archival episode of Design Matters originally dropped in November of 2021.
0:13.0	We're replaying it in honor of Toshi Reagan's birthday.
0:16.5	And because she's playing her annual birthday concerts
0:19.6	January 25th through January 29th at Joe's pub in New York City.
0:25.0	I started playing guitar when I was 14 and I was like I've playing guitar for over 40 years, that's bananas to me. And
0:37.4	spiritually I just really feel like I'm five years old so I just don't even
0:41.6	understand the way time works.
0:45.0	From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman.
1:00.0	For 17 years, Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other creative people about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on.
1:05.0	On this episode, Toshi Regan talks about how she has cut her own path through the music industry and survived.
1:11.0	It's a wonderful thing to wake up in the morning and feel good
1:15.7	about who you are and where you are and who you're with.
1:20.3	Hi I'm Roman Mars, host of 99% invisible. It's a podcast about all the thought that goes into things most people don't even think about.
1:29.6	You're going to see stories everywhere.
1:31.8	Follow and listen to 99% invisible wherever you get your
1:35.1	podcasts. Folk blues, gospel, rock, funk.
1:43.4	Toshi Reagan writes it, plays it, sings it, and produces it all.
1:48.4	Her genre spanning work includes an opera,
1:51.2	the parable of the sower, based on the dystopian novel by Octavia Butler.
1:56.4	She's been making albums since 1990, and her commitment to social justice rings loud and clear in her songs and in her beautiful, expressive, and powerful voice.
2:10.0	She's here today to talk about her life, her music, and her career.
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