Merrill Garbus is the performer and multi-instrumentalist behind tUnE-yArDs " a music project that blends African-inspired rhythms and vocals with electric bass and saxophone. But she only discovered music after a failed career as a puppeteer. She tells Kurt Andersen she found musical inspiration as a student living in Africa; her mother's ukelele, purchased at an Army-Navy store, helped her to take the plunge.…
SOURCE: Studio 360 at 12:43PM on February 10, 2012