Miami 2011: The Interview Capital of the World

The numbers tell part of the story: in 2011, Premier Guide Miami published more than 160 interviews. That is not a typo. In a single year, the publication sat down with more than 160 of the most interesting people passing through Miami — musicians, chefs, athletes, entrepreneurs, artists, and cultural figures whose work was shaping the world. It was a year that demonstrated, definitively, that Miami had become a city where the world's most interesting people wanted to be.

The interview subjects ranged from the globally famous to the locally essential. Julian Lennon brought his photography exhibition to Art Basel Miami Beach, and the conversation that resulted was one of the most personal and revealing the publication has ever published. The SOBEWFF brought a parade of culinary talent through Miami, and Premier Guide Miami was there for every conversation. The South Beach Comedy Festival delivered comedians who were at the peak of their powers.

The Las Vegas Michael Jackson Immortal World Tour stopped in Miami, and the coverage captured the strange, moving experience of watching the King of Pop's legacy translated into a Cirque du Soleil spectacular. The Polo Miami Beach event brought a different kind of glamour to the city — the old-money elegance of equestrian sport set against the backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean.

Art Basel 2011 was another landmark edition, and the Wynwood Walls were growing in ambition and international recognition. The neighborhood that Tony Goldman had begun transforming in 2009 was becoming something genuinely extraordinary — a living museum that was changing how the world thought about street art, about public space, and about Miami itself.

2011 was the year Premier Guide Miami proved that its model — deep access, genuine relationships, and a commitment to covering Miami's cultural life with the seriousness it deserved — was producing something unique. The archive of interviews from that year remains one of the most valuable records of Miami's cultural life in the early 2010s. We are proud of every one of them.