INTERVIEW: Liquid - Out of the Ghetto
August 25th, 2006 | 
Interviews | Source: ChristianityToday.com (17)
Lauryn Hill once said that every ghetto she’d ever been to made her long for her heavenly home. Victor “Liquid” Oquendo would probably concur. Growing up in the streets of Philadelphia, his upbringing had all the makings of a life destined for the statistics books—especially when his father left and his mother became addicted to drugs. But on those same mean streets, Oquendo found God and music—and both were instrumental in his exodus from the hood and into becoming a producer and recording artist. Oquendo reminisces warmly about his hometown in his stunning debut, Tales from the Badlands (Gotee), a conceptual opus filled with real-life stories from the City of Brotherly Love. In this candid conversation, Oquendo traces his musical roots, relates the struggles of his youth, and demystifies the oft-glamorized realities of the ghetto. […read more]
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