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Half Gringa’s empathetic alt-country harnesses the power of understatementLeor Galilon September 1, 2020 at 1:00 pm


In 2016, Chicago alt-country singer-songwriter Isabel Olive began performing and recording as Half Gringa, a name that refers to her Venezuelan ancestry. As she told music writer Britt Julious in the Trib that year, she wants to use Half Gringa to explore complicated questions about ethnicity and identity.…Read More

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