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Harry Edgar Palacio (Oregon Kool-aid) An American celebrity is a critically acclaimed underground Indie/Alternative Rock musician, numerous award-winning author & prize-winning fine artist. He hit #1 in Luxembourg music charts with his hit single "Coral Relief," performed with Grammy winners & Grammy nominated artists including Ari Up, lead singer of The Slits 'Godmothers of Punk' former members of The Raincoats, championed by Kurt Cobain. He was offered a music contract with Atlantic & Interscope Records, featured on over a 100 music magazines including MTV, ABC, CBS, NBC, African Hype, Folk N' Rock, HipHop 1987, Vents & elsewhere. Harry performed at Paramount Theater, NYC, Dominican Republic, Studio Two, Pace University, September Fest, 925 South & many other venues. Harry is 'Oregon Kool-aid,' & 'Harry Edgar Palacio,' his 13 studio albums available on all platforms. Harry was a finalist for Fjords Review Book Competition, semi-finalist for Quartz Literary Prize, Willow Run Book Award, Finishing Line Press chapbook & book competition. His books Ambrosia, Sutras of Tiny Jazz, Lazarus at His Desk, The Foyer, Narcissus, Dream-walking Savage, Shani’s Ghost & The Devil's Apprentice available worldwide. Harry's prose-poetry has been published in over 75 magazines, journals, reviews & anthologies including Ballast, North of Oxford, Cesarus, Punt Volat, Active Muse, Bar-Bar, Tule Review, Washington Square Review, In Parentheses, Inlandia & elsewhere. His fine art was featured on the cover of Blotter Rag Magazine & Bellevue Review with artwork published in over 11 magazines including The Bitchin' Kitsch, The Morgue, Suburban Witchcraft, The Courtship of Winds, International Voices & Inside Voice, who has been accepted to show fine art at galleries & festivals in NYC, UK, Dominican Republic & Italy; including School of Visual Arts, Graffik Gallery, Open Studios Peekskill 2016, 2017, & 2021; Paul Robeson Gallery, H-Art Gallery & Mount Kisco Arts Council. He was a music journalist for Popfadblog and has read 5,214 books in his lifetime making him top #26 reader in the USA & top #49 reader globally. Harry was a college radio DJ & Rock Music Director at WARY 88.1. He is an International Yoga Master 200 Hours certified by Universe Yoga Alliance in Nepal/ India, Reiki Grandmaster, Astrologer, Feng Shui Master, Clairaudient, Yoga & Ayurveda Guru whose Guruji is Sri Dharma Mittra, master of poses, who studied under Sri Yogi Gupta; famed yogic master. Harry is second generation Osho lineage. He is a Meditation Master and has meditated 154,000 minutes in his lifetime. Harry is a USA citizen & lives in Mount Kisco, New York born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; former residence Dominican Republic & Pokhara, Nepal. He received a Master’s in Education from Manhattanville University where he worked as assistant director of the social justice branch. Harry was accepted into Harvard University, offered three honorary PhDs & has certificates from The New School & Rolling Stone Magazine, Parsons School of Design & Complex Magazine, Wesleyan University & Stanford University etc. He is a BIPOC, Dominican & Colombian, living with schizoaffective disorder