THE BELIEVER: You recently released your third album, Tunde, which explores your Nigerian heritage through Afrobeats. I can’t think of any other NBA player who can sing—like actually sing sing—the way you do. Where did you get it from?
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Alan Chazaro is the author of This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album, Piñata Theory, and Notes from the Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge. He is a graduate of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People program at the University of California at Berkeley, and a former Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poetry Fellow at the University of San Francisco. He was proudly raised by Mexican immigrants in the Bay Area and is currently a staff writer for KQED Arts and Culture.
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