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June Tyson: Saturnian Queen Of The Sun Ra Arkestra

Neil Kulkarni, The Wire, June 2020

JUNE TYSON WASN'T just a collaborator with Sun Ra for 25 years, she was an integral Afrofuturist presence in The Arkestra, the only woman in the band (the Saturnian Queen to Ra's King) and also a costume designer, choreographer, singer and violinist who worked on all aspects of The Arkestra's live shows.

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