Ella Altshuler on being an immigrant and a creative artist
Karthika interviews Ella Altshuler, a singer, song writer, jazz musician, author and poet originally from Azerbaijan who is now living in London. Ella openly shares her challenges growing up in communist Azerbaijan and how she challenged that restrictive culture by becoming one of the first, if not, only female Jazz vocalist. She then moved to Moscow to join a Jewish theater group but continued her singing and songwriting career. She was able to leave all of that behind and migrate to the US in the 90s and continued to build her music career. Ella attributes a lot of her success and tenacity to being an immigrant and a creative – one which made her bold and ask for things that she would have otherwise not gotten and the other helping her stay connected with her talents and helping her evolve from a musician to an author. Her latest book is now being converted to a film in Azerbaijan and Ella who went back after 30 years still felt that deep sense of connection to her home country, something she says a lot of us immigrants always have deep down. Website: www.culturallyours.com Episode Show Notes: www.culturallyours.com/podcast/ella-altshuler/ Episode Webpage: www.culturallyours.com/2018/12/18/ella-altshuler-on-being-an-immigrant-and-a-creative-artist/
