Robbi Kumalo

Robbi Kumalo

Artist

Robbi Kumalo's career as a musician and artist has included singing, piano, songwriting, and staging children's concerts. Her 2014 diagnosis of multiple sclerosis changed her life dramatically, but gave her a new perspective on how to keep creating. She is based in Portland, OR, and was married for a number of years to Bakhithi Kumalo, a world-renowned bassist whose most famous work is with Paul Simon on the "Graceland" album.


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Art Doesn't Stop for MS
Type.Tune.Tint.November 06, 202600:37:0184.71 MB

Art Doesn't Stop for MS

In this episode of Typtoon Tint, Roby Kamalo shares her remarkable journey from performing for school assemblies and touring as a Grammy-nominated artist to reinventing herself after a 2014 multiple sclerosis diagnosis. She discusses her memoir Married to a Rock Star, her All One Tribe