Miguel Perez
Miguel Perez is an assistant producer at KERA. He produces local content for Morning Edition and KERA News. He also produces The Friday Conversation, a weekly interview series with North Texas newsmakers.
Miguel first joined KERA as an intern with Art&Seek and Think in 2017. He’s also interned at NPR’s All Things Considered in Washington, D.C. and The Dallas Morning News.
Prior to KERA, he was a communications specialist at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Miguel is a graduate of UT Dallas, where he received his bachelor of science in economics.
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Willow Avalon is making room for a kind of country song where women can sing about more than just broken hearts. On her new album, she draws on the traditions of her rural Georgia upbringing. -
Orville Peck is famous for wearing a mask, but his new album, Mule, is a deeply personal, vulnerable, chronological account of the year he got sober. -
Alabama Shakes reunites after more than a decade to record their first new album since 2015. Brittany Howard, Heath Fogg and Zac Cockrell discuss what brought them back together, how they've evolved as musicians and why their creative chemistry remains as strong as ever. -
Before she became a mainstream star, Selena Quintanilla was making her name in Tejano music, performing with her family's band in Texas. World Cafe looks back at her early career, her rise to fame and the lasting legacy of a singer whose life was cut short at just 23. -
For Hispanic Heritage Month, World Cafe is diving into the East Los Angeles band's career and music before "La Bamba" changed everything. -
The record features collaborations with longtime friends like Bonnie Raitt and Bob Weir, as well as a new generation of artists like Ezra Koenig and Blake Mills. -
Boma Bango is a band formed by musician Daniel Coolik, who started it after falling in love with 1950s and '60s Congolese rumba, which, in turn, was originally influenced by Cuban music. -
It's a historic weekend in Philadelphia. We're celebrating with some local veterans who've been playing together for 35 years. Born from Philadelphia's vibrant club scene, The Hooters blend rock, folk, ska and reggae, blazing their own trail. -
As a kid growing up in West Philadelphia, Jeffrey Townes remembers watching local DJs spin records at block parties and being instantly hooked. -
When Stanley Clarke first picked up the acoustic bass, he drew a bow across the strings and was greeted by a terrible sound. Since then, he's made it his mission to make the instrument sing.
