Cromwell Ojeda and his brother grew up in Dubai — two Filipino kids in an expat family — but in 2022, his brother moved to Canada where their family can finally gain citizenship. From the podcast “Movement,” stories about music and migration, Meklit Hadero talks with Ojeda about losing his lifelong collaborator, and what it’s like to make music and community in a place where people tend to come and go.
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