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A SHERO’s Journey: L’Rain

Taja Cheek aka L'Rain joins host Carmel Holt this week to discuss her brilliant, genre-bending, and multiverse of a third album, I Killed Your Dog, which saw Taja contemplating definitions / redefinitions of womanhood and femininity. An in-depth look at Taja's journey thus far reveals an artist who has always been an intrepid explorer of musical worlds: from her classical training on piano, cello, and recorder as a child, to crate digging through her father's record collection, to teaching herself bass so that she could play bands and join the ranks of a burgeoning Brooklyn scene of rock, DIY, experimental, and noise, then taking a self-determined path that led her out of the racist and sexist environment of her college music program to throwing shows and working as music director of her college radio station, where Taja would go even deeper into music discovery and gathering the seeds of her future musical self as L'Rain.

Taja Cheek aka L'Rain joins host Carmel Holt this week to discuss her brilliant, genre-bending, and multiverse of a third album, I Killed Your Dog, which saw Taja contemplating definitions / redefinitions of womanhood and femininity. An in-depth look at Taja's journey thus far reveals an artist who has always been an intrepid explorer of musical worlds: from her classical training on piano, cello, and recorder as a child, to crate digging through her father's record collection, to teaching herself bass so that she could play bands and join the ranks of a burgeoning Brooklyn scene of rock, DIY, experimental, and noise, then taking a self-determined path that led her out of the racist and sexist environment of her college music program to throwing shows and working as music director of her college radio station, where Taja would go even deeper into music discovery and gathering the seeds of her future musical self as L'Rain.

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