concerts and other venues. Her interpretations have been described as being in high demand among concert organizers and artists. Personal life In 2011 when she married a professor of psychology and her name then became Amber Galloway-Gallego. They are in the process of a divorce. Galloway has her own YouTube Channel where she has over 48k subscribers. On March 4, 2018, Galloway's son Elijah Goertz died at the age of 22. A video was posted by Galloway to her YouTube channel titled "Elijah's Memorial Video". Style Galloway's interpretation style incorporates nonmanual markers (such as facial expressions and body language), thorough research into the meaning of the song and the intentions of the artist, and dance. Because ASL is a distinct language from English with its own grammar and syntax, Galloway first must translate each song into ASL, a process which can take hours. As such, her interpretations are not word-for-word versions of the interpreted song's lyrics. For some particularly fast-paced songs, such as Eminem's "Rap God", Galloway will sign more rapidly and use shorthand. When she is hired to interpret at a music festival, she has to memorize the lyrics of one hundred fifty songs or more at a time. While an untrained eye might mistake her interpretations for pantomime, Galloway's performances are all grammatically correct ASL. She was partly inspired to interpret music for the Deaf after hosting gatherings at her house attended by many of her Deaf friends who watched her interpret music and encouraged her to do so professionally. In an interview with the Houston Chronicle, Galloway noted that all of her interpretations are uncensored, and she does not feel uncomfortable signing "raunchy" lyrics as they are not her words. In an interview with MTV, she described her style and motivations thus: The Week has described Galloway's style as "language, poetry, and performance all coming through at the same time." Activism Besides watching interpretations, completely Deaf people can also feel the vibrations that sound makes, and Galloway is a proponent of music for people of all levels of hearing ability as she views it as a key part of cognitive development. Galloway has criticized concert venues who only provide closed captioning or opt to hire the lowest salary sign language interpreters who may not be properly certified or who only sign the lyrics of the song to meet the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. References