Soul Music Gave Me Surrogate Fathers — Then Helped Me to Know My Own

Growing up, old-school soul connected me to who I thought my father was; years later, it connected me to the man himself

Santi Elijah Holley
LEVEL
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7 min readJun 18, 2020

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Santi Elijah Holley
LEVEL
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Santi Elijah Holley is a freelance journalist and author in Los Angeles. www.santielijahholley.com