She borrowed sound recordings from a musical project by the singer David Byrne to make one song on her new album.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

In Paris, Isabella became close friends with one of her classmates, Julia Gardner, whose family was from Boston, Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

Under her leadership, the group's budget grew from less than ten million dollars to more than one hundred thirty million.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

Here is the song "Baby I'm a Fool" from her second album, "My One and Only Thrill."

VOA: special.2009.10.30

She remembers one student who learned from her mother not to pick up a crying baby.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

She knew what she wanted to do. No one could stop her from doing it.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

Paintings from this period include one of her mother reading a newspaper.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

Here is her version of "Four in One" from the album "Confeddie."

VOA: special.2009.12.18

One day,Sylvie's grandmother had visited them and had chosen Sylvie from all her brothers and sisters to be the one to help her on her farm in Vermont.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

(The whole group that is donating to her is just from our family." ) Oluoch gives one reason for peoples' reluctance to donate blood.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

She donated one of her kidneys to her father,Peter Kibe, who is suffering from hypertension.

VOA: standard.2010.05.30

She was ordered to remain under house arrest for another one and a half years - a sentence that human rights groups and foreign governments say was aimed at preventing her from participating in next year's elections.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

The title comes from one of her thoughts during this time: "These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections - sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent that happened after I was gone."

VOA: standard.2010.01.08