Amanda Pascali’s Spotify profile includes a quote by Nigerian poet Ijeoma Umebinyou reading, “too foreign for here, too foreign for home, and never enough for both.” For Pascali, the daughter of two immigrant parents, the quote resonates.

Pascali’s music revolves around preserving and translating Sicilian to English and making the sound her own. Growing up, she said she struggled to fit in because of her identity as a child of immigrants from two different countries. In response, she turned to music.