mgl

"If Teddy Pendergrass and Sade had a baby boy, then gave it up for adoption...and he ended up being raised by life-partners Sting and Tracy Chapman..."
--Juan Huevos, musician

"When mgl plays, something changes in the room. Invoking more than an American soundtrack and not simply techno or world music, this is something other and it is surprising. He doesn't carry you away - he brings you more deeply into the place where you are."
--A. Hughes, Director of External Affairs, Ackland Art Museum

"When I listen to 10,000 Babies I feel sad. i feel sad because it makes me feel like me or my baby has been stolen, I think of all the women and families and communities across the indigenous word who have lost babies to colonial policies and it makes me sad.
"When I listen to Avocado Honey do I feel wistful. I think of hot weather and sweet fruit and gatherings with people I love...I even think a little of fried chicken. It makes me feel like dancing the happy snoopy dance.
"When I listen to Lemonade I feel as if i'm hearing something naughty, like over hearing an adult conversation that I know is naughty, but I don't quite know why, but I'm just sure I should keep snooping."
--MIXED BLOOD WOMAN, dance theater company