"I couldn’t allow myself to kill my soul in order to work in an environment that I didn’t agree with”. It's a typically dramatic statement from Kamiya, but hey, he's a man of principle.

“In my early twenties, performance artists and comedians in their thirties and forties were telling me to bare my soul," he recounts ... bird puns – is about to take off.

She never matched her first run of success, although she did have a hit in the 1980s with the Peabo Bryson duet “Tonight, I Celebrate My Love ... “First Take,” a blend of gospel, soul ...

“US immigration ripped my soul from me when they handcuffed my husband and forced him into an unmarked vehicle,” she said, while also noting his arrest came as the couple was returning from an iftar ...