Debora Iyall returns from the Romeo VoidBy Carla MeyerIyall, who headlines tonight's free Concert in the Park at Cesar Chavez Plaza, has spent the decades since Romeo Void's mid-1980s breakup as a freelance art teacher–in San Francisco, San Bernardino County and on Navajo land in Arizona.
"My reality is that I turn to what is working–I am like a plant with the light," said Iyall, a American Indian from the Cowlitz tribe who a few years ago earned a master's degree in art at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore., through a tribal educators grant.Comment: For more Native musicians in mainstream bands, see
Black Eyed Pea Is Shoshone and
Ute Drummer on Saturday Night Live.
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