{"id":857,"date":"2020-09-23T10:18:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T14:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/?p=857"},"modified":"2020-09-23T10:18:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T14:18:25","slug":"isaias-umali-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/isaias-umali-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaias Umali III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isaias Umali III is a\u00a0<span lang=\"en-US\">New York native, guitarist, composer, and occasional visual artist, Isaias discovered music at a young age when he was introduced to the family stereo system to keep him quiet in the house. Influenced by Jazz, Classical, Hip Hop, Indie, Metal, and Electronic, Isaias enjoys blurring the lines between these genres to create music that seems familiar yet unique.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">A founding\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">participant<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0of Carnegie Hall\u2019s Musical Connections program at Sing\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Sing<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0Correctional Facility, Isaias realized music can be used both as a therapeutic form of self-expression and a tool to build a supportive community in a place of isolation and conflict.\u00a0He is currently a member of the Musical Connections Advisory Committee, who have performed at Carnegie Hall, Global Citizen, RFK Human Rights Foundation, Center for Justice, Just Societies, and Create Justice Forum.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0Isaias<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0hopes that his<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0life experience and music\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">influence<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">s<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0society\u2019s perceptions of system involved individuals for them to gain understanding and acceptance.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaias Umali III is a\u00a0New York native, guitarist, composer, and occasional visual artist, Isaias discovered music at a young age when he was introduced to the family stereo system to keep him quiet in the house. Influenced by Jazz, Classical,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/isaias-umali-iii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38947],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests-1-13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}