Goapele is on the cover of the San Francsico East Bay magazine "Diablo." The songtress discusses her new album Milk and Honey and new business ventures including a nightclub and clothing boutique. Here's a snippet:Born in Oakland in 1977, Goapele (pronounced gwah-puh-LAY, which means �to go forward� in her grandmother�s Setswana dialect) is the daughter of an exiled South African political activist father and a New York�born Jewish mother. Her parents married in Kenya, then moved to the East Bay.
�Music and politics were integrated into my upbringing from a very young age. A lot of my family is from South Africa, and during my childhood, there was a rich South African community in the Bay Area,� she says. �There were lots of parties where people would break into singing a cappella or playing conga drums.�
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