Artist ACV Talks Music and Making Space for Marginalized Groups in Higher Education

Samuel Miriello created the Sam Miriello Show (SMS) in early 2021 to fill the need for a gap in coverage towards community initiatives. In Sam’s coverage, he usually focuses on activism, issues facing our community, and organizations aiding different people and communities in the Montreal area. With experience as a student, having organized demonstrations, creating a media outlet and striving to make various changes in the community, Sam has good connections with various people in the greater Montreal area and aims to highlight underreported events and actions in the community.

ACV also discusses his activism in education, where he is trying to find a space for marginalized folks. He is co-organizing a program at Cornell University, which is a philosophy of law undergraduate summer school program. This will be for students belonging to marginalized groups in order to help them be educated in the philosophy of law which focuses on marginalized groups. ACV says this will create a pathway for them to get into graduate school.

He explains music as a way to communicate, and encourages listeners, and in particular Black listeners, that there is an avenue to be whatever you want in this world. ACV also gives advice to those interested in pursuing a music career.

Sam invites musician Alexandre Vanchon, known as ACV, to discuss the release of his recent music video for his song Herzog Pt. 2 from his album Saul Bellow Négrophilique. He discusses his passion for music and how his sister and parents developed and established his love of music from a young age, leading him to write music. He brings us through his process of writing his album and where his inspiration comes from, being inspired from others, and also drawing on his own life experiences and bringing it within his music.

Click here to watch ACV's music video for Herzog Pt. 2.