Harry Edgar Palacio (Hari) is a critically acclaimed underground Indie/Alternative 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 and La Gran Mawon, up and coming international Afro-Dominican band. He was offered a music contract with Atlantic & Interscope Records, featured on over 99 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, Annual Peace Concert, September Fest, & 925 South. Harry is 'Oregon Kool-aid,' & 'Harry Edgar Palacio,' his 10 studio albums: Ishtar & Cernunnos, Shani's Ghost, Behead the Satyr... Courtesans, Vestals & Nymphs, Seven Years... & the Vestal Orgy, Legba's Nymphs, Sex/ death Ibbur, Satanic Church Music, The Trial of Zion & Five Thousand Year Ascent, The Trial of Zion & Five Thousand Year Ascent B-sides & rarities & Seven Year Bitch & the Velocity of Witch Hunts are available on all platforms. Harry was a finalist for Fjords Review Book Competition, semi-finalist for Quartz Literary Prize & Willow Run Book Award, grand prix at Hudson Valley MOCA Writing Off the Walls, Finishing Line Press chapbook & book competition. He has published three books Ambrosia, Sutras of Tiny Jazz & Lazarus at His Desk: Vertigo-talk with The Foyer to be released 2026. Harry's prose-poetry has been published in over 75 magazines, journals, reviews & anthologies including Amberdextrous Bloodhound, Ballast, Pumpernickle House, North of Oxford, Mortal Magazine, Cesarus, Allegory Ridge, Punt Volat, Active Muse, BarBar, Tule Review, Washington Square Review, Landlocked, In Parentheses, Rigorous, Inlandia & elsewhere. His fine art was featured on the cover of Blotter Rag Magazine & Bellevue Review with artwork published in over 10 magazines including The Bitchin' Kitsch, Suburban Witchcraft, The Courtship of Winds, International Voices & Inside Voice, who has been accepted to show fine art at galleries & festivals in NYC, UK & 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, Art Teacher in the Dominican Republic, Assistant TESOL Teacher & has read 5,027 books in his lifetime making him top #26 reader in the United States of America & 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, Clairvoyant, 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 145,000 minutes in his lifetime. Harry is a US 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 & has certificates from The New School & Rolling Stone Magazine, Parsons School of Design & Complex Magazine, Wesleyan University & Stanford University etc. He is a BIPOC living with schizoaffective disorder
