Selected interviews from various media outlets
How Illenium Became Asian America’s Favorite White Boy
2024 | Rolling Stone
Steffi Cao interviewed Kevin Fellezs for Rolling Stone magazine about the ways in which Asian fans find a strong sense of diasporic community in the music of EDM star, Illenium.
Long Yellow Road: Jazz Legend Toshiko Akiyoshi's 94 Years
2024 | NHK Television
Kevin Fellezs is a featured interviewee for Long Yellow Road, a 2024 NHK (Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) film documentary on pianist and composer Toshiko Akiyoshi.
American Railroad Episode 3: California
2024 | PRX Podcast
Kevin Fellezs is a featured interviewee for the third episode of American Railroad, a five-episode podcast hosted by Grammy Award-winning musican and Silkroad Artistic Director Rhiannon Giddens.
Fred Ho's Last Year:
Time is not to be wasted
2013 | Steven De Castro, director
What would you do if you had only one year to live? Follow award-winning Asian American author and avant-garde jazz composer Fred Ho on an unbelievable year as he fights cancer, while leading orchestras, giving talks, leading protests, publishing books, and producing his magnum opus – an elaborate, manga-inspired samurai opera, Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon, on a New York stage.
Producers: Steven De Castro, Ann T. Greene, Kevin A. Fellezs, Howard Fischer, Elaine Fong, and Leon R. Yankwich
Kevin Fellezs is a featured interviewee in the film.
American Icons:
Cross Road Blues
2019 | Studio 360
Gisele Regatão interviewed Kevin Fellezs for a radio documentary on the recording of Robert Johnson's "Cross Road Blues" produced by Studio 360, part of the Public Radio International network.
'The key is to keep the faith for our race to be won':
How the power of music in social movements has deep roots
2020 | WUSA9
Ariane Datil interviewed Kevin Fellezs for a WUSA9 segment on the relationship between music and social movements.