Merrill Garbus Becomes tUnE-yArDs

Studio 360
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Merrill Garbus is the performer and multi-instrumentalist behind  tUnE-yArDs  – a music project that blends African-inspired rhythms and vocals with electric bass and saxophone. But she only discovered music after a failed career as a puppeteer. She tells Kurt Andersen she found musical inspiration as a student living in Africa; her mother’s ukelele, purchased at an Army-Navy store, helped her to take the plunge.
Watch tUnE-yArDs perform songs from the album  w h o k i l l   below.
(Originally aired: June 3, 2011)
  
  
Video: tUnE-yArDs performs “Gangsta”

Video: tUnE-yArDs performs “You Yes You”

Video: tUnE-yArDs performs “Bizness”

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