Hey, it's Anne here with another edition of To the Best of Our Knowledge.

This week, we are listening to musical artists who are breaking boundaries, crossing over, busting out of musical silos.

It's going to be exciting, fun. There's a ton of music to listen to, including

some live performances, and it's all coming up. Wisconsin Public Radio.

It's to the best of our knowledge.

I'm Anne Strange, Champs, and today we're going to talk with musicians about how to break the rules.

You know, a lot of people think Wendell Patrick is my actual name, like a regular name.

It's not.

My earliest musical memory is actually from when I was three. A cousin sat down at the piano that we had at the house

and played the entertainer by Scott Joplin.

When she finished, I walked over to the piano and

I started doing something on the keys.

So I used to play a lot of Chopin, Bachwananov Scarlatti,

in my spare time when I wasn't practicing the piano, I started to dabble in producing other kinds of music, other than classical music.

I bought myself a little sampler, another little drum machine,

and a four-track recorder, and just started recording little ideas, little thoughts.

I started to play the music for people.

They'd listened for 15, 20 seconds, and they'd sort of have a confused look on their face,

and then they'd say, oh, where's the piano?

I felt like they were missing, like, the first 30 seconds

just because they were associating it with what they already knew.

So I thought, well, if I have a different name,

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