In this installment of our Movement series, about migration and music, The World’s Meklit Hadero talks with Gino Yevdejevich, lead singer of the gypsy punk band Kultur Shock. They explore the need to create art, especially when the world is at its darkest. Yevdejevich tells the story of how the siege of his native Sarajevo turned him from a pop musician to a punk rocker in Seattle.
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