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and meet our featured player for May/June 2009 - Canadian guitarist & transgender-rights activist Suzy Wedge of Nanaimo BC Canada. Photo-filled review & interview by Robert Urban.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3"><B>SUZY WEDGE</B></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3"> was born in Turkey, Istanbul as Cihan Unal in 1983 and moved to Canada in 2006. She attended Vancouver Island University, Jazz Studies Program as a guitar major. On December 31st 2008, new years eve, she realized that she was actually a woman. She changed her name to Suzy Wedge and in January, 2009 formed the surf-rock trio </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3"><I><B>Suzy Wedge & the Waves</I></B></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3">.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3">"So now I am a transsexual girl", says Suzy. "I live full time as a girl. I go shopping and have fun with my friends. I am so much happier living as a woman. Also I am so proud that I am a trans woman. I read a lot about transgender issues and afterwards, I decided to become transgender activist musician."<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3">Suzy combines her ideas with Garage punk attitude and Surf rock music that is her revolutionary vehicle. Her compositional themes are sex change, fear that creates transphobia, gender (im)migration, transgression, prejudices against transgender persons, moving beyond the gender binary...</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3">"Expert guitarist </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3"><B>SUZY WEDGE</B></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3"> - who specializes in the venerable genre of rock know as "Surf" - captures all the signature sounds - the trebly bite, staccato riffs, dive-bomb slides & vintage reverb of classic surf-guitar rock. Along with her trusty sidemen - drummer Paul and bassist Dustin - </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3"><B>SUZY WEDGE & THE WAVES</B></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3"> offer up a most danceable & energetic version of west-coast inspired instrumental guitar-bass-drums surfdom. I daresay their sound could provide soundtracks for a variety of wild, edgy & fun-filled pulp fiction, biker, beach party, etc. type teen films". - </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3"><B>Robert Urban, URBAN PRODUCTIONS, NYC</B></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3"><BR>
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