![]() Garro endured bullying at school, where she was singled out for being different. It’s painful in the sense of a reminder of what used to be.”Īfter the tragedy, she, her siblings and mother moved to Omaha for a fresh start. Even though it’s going on 20 years, it’s still painful for me. ![]() “It was rough, it was really bad, we were in pain from that for a long time. The music nearly stopped when, at age 9, her father died in a car accident. She’s always sung in both her people’s native tongue of Ga and in English. Garro grew up singing tunes – at home, at school or wherever the spirit moved her – by popular artists across many styles. We pray all the time, so we sing all the time.” In our household, my mom sang all the time. Music is an inheritance and immersion she’s absorbed and expressed from early childhood on. “I had people who looked like me, spoke my language, who were affiliated with my culture surrounding me,” Garro says. She grew up in Maryland amidst a large, tight-knit Ghanian community. Twenty-eight-year-old Edem (Kegey) Garro was born to parents from the West African nation of Ghana. ![]() Everything about the artist known as Edem Soul Music is a reflection of her first-generation American experience. ![]()
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