Valentina Gambaro

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After studying Communications and Marketing, I merged my two greatest passions into one: WRITING about MUSIC. I like telling stories with a happy ending, but only because someone believes in them, observing the world from different points of view, sometimes the most uncomfortable ones, talking about personalites who have contributed (and still contribute) to changing the world through music. My iPod contains several B-sides and... oddities. I love self-production and people who give new life to second-hand objects.

 

Favourite quotes:

"If you really want to do something, you will  find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse” (‪African proverb)

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After studying Communications and Marketing, I merged my two greatest passions into one: WRITING about MUSIC. I like telling stories with a happy ending, but only because someone believes in them, observing the world from different points of view, sometimes the most uncomfortable ones, talking about personalites who have contributed (and still contribute) to changing the world through music. My iPod contains several B-sides and... oddities. I love self-production and people who give new life to second-hand objects.

 

Favourite quotes:

"If you really want to do something, you will  find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse” (‪African proverb)

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After studying Communications and Marketing, I merged my two greatest passions into one: WRITING about MUSIC. I like telling stories with a happy ending, but only because someone believes in them, observing the world from different points of view, sometimes the most uncomfortable ones, talking about personalites who have contributed (and still contribute) to changing the world through music. My iPod contains several B-sides and... oddities. I love self-production and people who give new life to second-hand objects.

 

Favourite quotes:

"If you really want to do something, you will  find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse” (‪African proverb)

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Kenya’s Ghetto Classics Orchestra tackles juvenile crime with music

Kenya’s Ghetto Classics Orchestra tackles juvenile crime with music

Korogocho, Kenya, is Nairobi’s third slum. It rises on the huge mountain of trash of Dandora landfill (the capital’s biggest dumpsite) and about 200,000 people live there in tin sheds built on an area of approximately one and a half square kilometers. Unlike Muthaiga, one of Nairobi’s wealthiest areas located less than two kilometres away from