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Quinn Christopherson
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For Quinn Christopherson, storytelling is something of a family affair. The musician, who grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, attributes his knack for it to his heritage: His mother is Ahtna Athabascan, and his father is Iñupiat, and Christopherson says telling stories is central to his family’s traditions. He started writing a lot of poems as a kid; at 20, his dad bought him a guitar, and he began writing songs. But, he says, he traces it back to his grandmother. "My grandma would tell us stories, and sometimes they would be so short," he once said in an interview. "She would almost say nothing, but we got a whole world view out of, like, five words."