User:Wittylama/Amber Galloway Gallego

Amber Galloway Gallego is a sign language interpreter specialising in the interpretation of concerts and music festivals, especially rap/hip-hop, into American Sign Language (ASL).

A handheld video from the crowd of Galloway Gallego interpreting ASAP Rocky 's “Fuckin’ Problems” (performed by Kendrick Lamar ) at Lollapalooza in 2013 became a viral video hit when uploaded to YouTube. Although she had been interpreting at concerts for over a decade prior, the video brought the issue of access to music-culture for the deaf community to mainstream attention and made Galloway Gallego "..the most recognizable sign language interpreter in the country"

While Galloway Gallego is not deaf herself, she has been "surrounded by members of the deaf community her entire life". After attending a concert with her partner a Galloway Gallego created a style which "incorporates non-manual markers" which includes facial expressions, body-language and thorough research into the meaning of the song:

"'Music is more than words, and the problem is that the interpreters, for a long time, have just focused on the words -- and not a thought about all the other layers that come with it to actually make it equivalent. I show all the instruments, because they need to be able to see the riffs. So, it's kind of like using onomatopoeia in sign language. It's not only words -- it's also all the different layers.'"


 * http://www.mtv.com/news/2229923/concert-needs-sign-language-interpreter-lollapalooza-amber-galloway-gallego/
 * http://www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture/July-2016/ASL-Lollapalooza-Amber-Galloway-Gallego/
 * https://priceonomics.com/the-sign-language-interpreter-of-the-rappers/
 * http://www.oprah.com/entertainment/Amber-Galloway-Gallego-Hip-Hop
 * http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/11/interpreter-ensures-no-one-is-left-out-of-the-rap/
 * http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/article/Sign-language-interpreter-helps-deaf-audiences-5454952.php
 * http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-27/feeling-the-beat-what-it-is-like-to-be-a-deaf-music-fan/7445408
 * http://www.vibe.com/2014/10/meet-jay-z-hip-hop-sign-language/
 * http://www.vibe.com/2014/10/meet-jay-z-hip-hop-sign-language/