Producer Picks: Bruce Lee, the international icon who holds a special place in Seattle's heart
It’s the holidays and, to round out 2025, the Soundside team is sharing some of our favorite conversations we had on the show this year.
For this episode, we devoted the entire hour to a conversation we originally aired last month on Bruce Lee.
This year, author Jeff Chang published an in-depth biography on Lee’s life. It's called “Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America." In it, Chang shows how the rise of Bruce Lee mirrored the rise of Asian American identity.
In this interview, we talked about Lee’s life in Seattle; his rise in Hollywood; and how his short life left an imprint on Asian Americans that can be felt to this day.
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- "Water Mirror Echo" explores the life, and legacy, of Bruce Lee
- Book Review: ‘Water Mirror Echo,’ by Jeff Chang - The New York Times
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Libby Denkmann
Host, Soundside
Libby Denkmann joined KUOW in December 2021 as the host of the midday show Soundside. She’s a native Pacific Northwesterner who grew up in Redmond, graduated from the University of Washington, and covered local news as a producer and reporter with KIRO Radio.
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Maleeha Syed
Producer, Soundside
Maleeha is a producer on Soundside, a show that helps listeners get to know the PNW and each other. Before KUOW, she worked at Cascade PBS, first as a communities reporter and then as a podcast producer on shows like Northwest Reports and Your Last Meal. Before moving to Seattle, she worked as a reporter at the Burlington Free Press in Vermont, but is originally from San Antonio.
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