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#Petaluma's Grammy Nominated Hollis Wong-Wear Slams Her Way Into Mainstream Music

NBC News this morning released an article Hollis Wong-Wear Slams Her Way into Mainstream Music by Ruby Veridiano about the Petaluma native.

She made her way from Petaluma to Seattle on an academic scholarship. There she has become part of the local poetry slam scene as a performer-to-watch and youth poet mentor through YouthSpeaks Seattle.

She has worked as a tour manager in the hip-hop scene and appeared in videos like “White Walls” that has had over a million views and appeared in national morning and late night talk shows. She is now touring the U.S. with The Flavr Blue.

Click here for the entire article and the video of the NBC televised interview.

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