Video: Interview with UNC alum, musician Joe Kwon
Posted Jul 1, 2020
Join Carolina alums Joe Kwon ’02 and Barb Lee ’88 for a virtual conversation that explores Joe’s successful career with The Avett Brothers, his Carolina story and his life as an Asian American in the South. Kwon attended Carolina on a music scholarship but ended up majoring in what was then called mathematical sciences.
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