Red Wave
Red Wave by Joanna Stingray & Madison Stingray
An American in the Soviet Music Underground
Dopplehouse Press, release date September 2020
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Back in the USSR: An American in the Soviet Music Underground by Joanna Stingray & Madison Stingray
December 3, 2020 - Before the plane touched down at LAX, I was already dreaming and scheming about how to return to the Soviet Union. I became like a crazed missionary running around the sandy beaches and Hollywood hills telling anyone who’d listen about these incredible musicians who’d changed my life. I was confident that I would return but wasn’t quite sure how. In mid-1984, Gorbachev, glasnost, and perestroika were still at least a couple years away, so I had little opportunity to just hop on the next British Airways Boeing 737. I needed another sponsored educational tour, and to also raise the money to get there.
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Forbes
Joanna Stingray: Hero Of Global Commerce – And Soviet Rock Music
November 16, 2020 - Business and cultural pioneers don’t set out to light the world on fire but end up doing so through ingenuity and determination. While we often think of globalization as factories and container ships, the exchange of goods and ideas between nations starts with one person finding something people in another nation would value. Joanna Stingray was that one person who brought Soviet rock music to America and did so in remarkable fashion.
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