Võ's music blends Vietnamese and Western traditions. Her new multimedia stage work was inspired by people who fled Vietnam in 1979, as well as those fleeing wars today in Syria and Iraq.
No, this isn't a parody: The presidential candidate has a folk album. The producer of the 1987 recording gives NPR a glimpse inside the studio — and explains the then-mayor's "talking-blues approach."
"I feel that people take you as serious as you take yourself," he says. The rapper-singer's Malibu has received more attention since Anderson .Paak's stellar performances on Dr. Dre's Compton.