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Beirut: Eager (but Not Quite Ready) to Take On the World

As a teenager, Zach Condon dropped out of high school and eventually went to Paris, where he encountered Roma, or Gypsy, music. "When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke -- it really has a lot to it," Condon, now 20, told Pitchfork Media.