Let's call this a "pre-teaser" for Season Three. I just want to let you know that I'm busy gathering and recording artists for i...

Just a quick note.... This is the final episode of the second season. I had hoped to have 10 episodes, or at least eight, and so...

Just a brief note, we'll be taking another short break. Getting ready to record some more episodes, so we should be back by the ...

Meral Polat was focused on her successful acting career until she received a letter with a poem from her father in response to h...

Ëda Diaz has created her own country -- "FranColumbia" or maybe "the French-Columbia Republic." Her father is Columbian and her ...

Welcome to a very special holiday edition of Hyphenated. As it's the season of giving, we're dropping a new episode featuring Yo...

Carmen Souza was born and raised around Lisbon, Portugal, while her parents had both emigrated from Cape Verde. Just out of her ...

Laíz likes to say "she carries many nations on her back." And what she means is that she has absorbed influences from around the...

Welcome to Season 2 of Hyphenated. When I thought of creating this audio documentary series, I had no idea if anybody out there ...

Defne's grandparents and then her parents migrated to Germany from Turkey. And they had a dream of integration for Defne, the ch...

This is Hyphenated, and I'm your host Ron Deutsch.  I regret to tell you that there is no episode this week. I spent the la...

Carol Luna's father was a political prisoner in 1970's Uruguay. He was given an opportunity to leave the country and move his fa...

Paolo thought of himself as 100% Italian, but coming from a Sicilian father and Moroccan mother, he still saw something other th...

Ganna was born just a few months before the collapse of the Soviet era in a small village in Ukraine. As she grew up, she watche...

Luzia was born of Angolan parents living in Poland during the communist era. When she was five, the family returned to Angola wh...

Two violin students - Marvin from France and Akram from Tunisia -  live next door to each in Belgium and hear each other practic...

Sevana Tchakerian was born and raised in Paris, a child of the Armenian diaspora. She began taking music lessons at three and ev...

For our first episode I'm honored to introduce you to Angolan-French musician Lucia de Carvalho. Lucia was born in war torn Ango...

This is an introduction to Hyphenated: Music + Identity, an audio documentary series about immigrant and first generation immigr...