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Marina Strah, Kent State Alumna, performs at the Ohio's Got Talent competition Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014. Strah won the competition and was awarded with the opportunity to record her first music video through Humble Heroz Productions company.

Recent KSU graduate Marina Strah combines degree with music

Megan Brown January 13, 2015

After winning Ohio’s Got Talent and RyanSeacrest.com’s web contest, recent Kent State graduate, Marina Strah, finds herself overjoyed by her success and future in music. She was also named one of Cleveland...

BSR Beats: Black Friday Anthems

Alyssa Haberman November 24, 2014

All of the feels you will go through while Black Friday shopping, compiled into one playlist. Happy Black Friday, and as Effie Trinket would say, may the odds be ever in your favor! All Night Longer...

Marina Strah

Singer-songwriter Marina Strah gets the Seacrest bump

Mark Oprea October 21, 2014

A September 2012 YouTube video shows Marina Strah, a then-sophomore at Kent State, sitting on her zebra-sheeted bed in McDowell Hall singing Taylor Swift’s “Ronan.” Her braided hair hides most of...

Neville Hardman

Opinion: Pop song perpetuates racial stereotypes

Neville Hardman August 26, 2014

Taylor Swift continues a cheap streak of writing songs about others, but this time it’s directed at a larger audience. Her new single and music video, “Shake It Off,” launched on Aug. 18 — but...