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Selected interviews from various media outlets

Rolling Stone magazine May 2024 cover
Long Yellow Road NHK documentary on Toshiko Akiyoshi

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.

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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.

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Fred Ho's Last Year film poster
Studio 360 Public Radio International logo
WUSA9 logo

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.

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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.

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'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.

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