Amber Galloway is not hard to find if you know where to glance: Just look for her signature pink mohawk on stage or to the side, and you’ll see her expertly sign songs from the most complicated rap lyrics to soulful ballads. It’s beautiful to watch—Galloway uses her facial expressions and hands to bring another form to the music and allows communities that are often overlooked into the experience. Because yes, the Deaf and hard-of-hearing communities go to concerts, too.
As an Austin-based American Sign Language interpreter specializing in live music, Galloway has gone viral for interpreting performances from Kendrick Lamar and Twista, and you can catch her at events from Austin City Limits Music Festival to the Grammys.
Galloway, the subject of the documentary The Way We Move that premiered at South by Southwest on March 15, has interpreted for hundreds of artists. Aside from her own work, she teaches other interpreters to sign alongside music—with or without lyrics—and connects companies with interpreters as part of Amber G Productions, making concerts and other events accessible to the Deaf and hard-of-hearing communities…