Sadiq in Berlin

Evening Music | May 6, 2010
"This could only happen in Berlin!"

Just like Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Gertrude Stein holed up in postwar Paris, Berlin has become the place to be for creative internationals in the years since the Wall fell. Sadiq Bey is a poet and musician from Detroit who moved to Berlin when he was 53 years old. Originally produced by Owen Agnew and Hilke Schellmann for Studio 360.

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