{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Beside the Golden Door: Jazz, Homeland, and the Universal Song with Lucy Yeghiazaryan","description":"What happens when your first American \u201clanguage\u201d isn\u2019t English, but jazz? How does a voice shaped in the uncertainty and upheaval of 1990s Armenia find its way onto New York\u2019s storied jazz stages while still carrying the timbre of folk songs and candlelit nights? In this episode, Dr. K sits down with jazz vocalist Lucy Yeghiazaryan, born in Armenia during a period of profound transition before immigrating at twelve\u2014not to an Armenian enclave, but to rural New Jersey. Together they trace Lucy\u2019s journey as a quintessential 1.5-generation Armenian: from growing up between literary Russian, colloquial Eastern Armenian, and jazz standards learned phonetically, to navigating the complexities of singing a Black American art form as an Armenian immigrant woman. Lucy reflects on longing, guilt, and the feeling of forever standing \u201cbeside the golden door\u201d that shaped her new album pairing Armenian folk songs with American jazz standards. The conversation explores raising a bilingual child, the tension between colloquial and literary Armenian, and why diasporans must shed the myth of being \u201cdefective Armenians\u201d and claim their role as cultural creators. Join us for an intimate conversation about music as firelight, the universality of human feeling, and how a mountain-top voice can carry Armenia far beyond the narratives of war and loss. ","author_name":"Language Therapy with Dr. K","author_url":"http:\/\/languagetherapywithdrk.libsyn.com\/website","html":"