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Podcast: Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
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Michelle Obama’s portraitist and ‘96 Tears’
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:51:21
Publish Date: 2019-10-24 20:00:00
Description:

Kurt Andersen talks with Amy Sherald, who painted the official Michelle Obama portrait, about her strict religious upbringing, the surreal experience of interviewing with the Obamas and why she’ll only ever paint African Americans. Our latest American Icons feature: “96 Tears” by ? and the Mysterians, and how the band of Mexican American teens managed to top the charts and help fuel the growing Latin influence on pop music in the 1960s.

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