My hope is that my friends in Bangladesh and girls around the world will get to chase their dreams, too.

CNN: Dreaming of more than a wedding

After the stridently messy Cookie and a few forays into spacey jazz, the recent The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams includes guest appearances by everyone from Pat Metheny to Oumou Sangare.

NPR: MeShell NdegeOcello in Concert

The U.S. Army has provided me such a wonderful opportunity to realize my dreams to go to college and see parts of the world that I had only read about in schoolbooks.

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