I'm Yo-A-Shaw.

I'm Kea Miyakanatees.

We're the hosts of the MPR podcast Invisibility.

You can think of Invisibility kind of like a sonic black light.

When you switch us on, you'll hear surprising and intimate stories.

Stories that help you notice things in your world that maybe you didn't see before.

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I'll begin today's show with a powerful true story of a Japanese big band formed in an

internment camp in Wyoming during World War II.

And just a quick note, there may be some language in the next five inches of the show.

Some people might find offensive.

The artist singing this story is Julian Separeti, also known as Nono Boy.

He's a first-generation Vietnamese American.

Here he is to tell the tale of the best goddamn band in Wyoming.

I often joke around that I didn't become Asian American until I moved to Wyoming, but

that's kind of the truth.

And it sort of all starts with a picture.

This project, Nono Boy that I do, this song, this album, it was a picture in a museum

of a jazz band.

But a jazz band with all Asian slantied faces like mine.

Faces I had never seen in the music history books I studied at my jazz college or just

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