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Movement with Meklit Hadero

by Meklit Hadero
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  • "A Song You Can't Sing Alone, ft. Meklit Hadero

    December 9, 2025 · 10 min

    On this final episode of season three, Meklit shares the story of Geefata, a traditional song of celebration rooted in her father’s childhood village and in his journey from the village to the United States.

  • "Keep That Tradition Alive" ft. Kiki Valera

    November 25, 2025 · 10 min

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  • "A Rainstorm of Voices" ft. Sahba Aminikia

    November 10, 2025 · 14 min

    Today on Movement, we revisit a story we first recorded in 2021, following Sahba Aminikia - a classically trained Iranian composer, forced to flee the country he called home, while making music that transforms pain into beauty.

  • "The shaming of the tongue" ft. Laura Elkeslassy

    October 21, 2025 · 40 min

    Arabic music filled the air of Laura Elkeslassy’s Moroccan Jewish childhood home in Paris, especially on Fridays before Shabbat. But she didn’t grow up speaking Arabic so she didn’t understand the words. In New York as an adult, Laura’s…

  • "We came from the same groove" ft. Cimafunk

    October 7, 2025 · 29 min

    After years of singing backup in Havana, Cuban musician Cimafunk found his own sound by refusing to choose between tradition and innovation. The breakthrough came when he realized Afro-Cuban rhythms and American funk are not just…

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  • "Who we are when no one is watching" ft. Ali Sethi

    September 9, 2025 · 31 min

    Ali Sethi released a song that got so popular, some claim it had the power to unite two countries at war – but his artistic journey all began with a suggestion from a college professor.

  • "We make the boom bap" ft. Ana Tijoux

    August 19, 2025 · 30 min

    When you don't feel like you belong to the country you were born in, where do you call home? Born to Chilean exiles in France, rapper Ana Tijoux didn't find home in a place, she found it in Hip Hop.

  • “Questioning everything” ft. Lupita Infante

    August 7, 2025 · 28 min

    Lupita Infante is the granddaughter of Mexican cultural icon, Pedro Infante, but she is also an artist in her own right, carrying legacies from both sides of her family. Through songwriting, GRAMMY performances and stints on Mexican…

  • “I don't tell people I'm a musician” ft. Peter One

    July 21, 2025 · 25 min

    Peter One has had two big breaks, decades apart, on different continents. But both times, he has chosen to live a double-life: working as a touring musician and also holding down a “regular job” in order to lead a “simple life.”

  • “Syrians must go back" ft. Omar Offendum

    July 8, 2025 · 26 min

    In the early 1900s, the ‘Little Syria’ neighborhood thrived in Lower Manhattan, but today few people know it even existed. Rapper and poet Omar Offendum aims to change that.

  • “I sound like an alien to them” ft. Satomi Matsuzaki

    June 23, 2025 · 21 min

    For Satomi Matsuzaki, the lead singer and bass player in Deerhoof, music has been a humanizing tool in the face of the sometimes dehumanizing experience of being an immigrant. Look no further than the band’s new single, Immigrant Songs.

  • “I can speak to my ancestors through this” ft. Lalin St Juste

    June 10, 2025 · 33 min

    Lalin St Juste knew, even as a child, that singing was a path towards her own healing. As she grows up, she goes on a journey reclaiming her Haitian heritage – and uses music as a process of healing herself and her bloodline.

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About the show

Movement is a podcast, radio series and live show that tells stories of global migration through music. Hosted by Ethiopian-American singer Meklit Hadero, the show is a meditation on the large-scale forces at play in individual lives. Issues of citizenship, identity, belonging, and borders are explored through the experiences of artists themselves: two brothers sharing one guitar, a daughter trying on her father’s shoes, the lineage of a drum, and the sounds of a grandmother’s backyard.