Bio, bio, bio, what I am will be on file so better jam it in real nice though must admit it kills my flow. The professional artist label is a new part of my fable cutting out plans to be stable was a recent placement on my table. But stability was always music. My one love constant, had to choose it. Worked with my smile time and my blues fits so I had to make it stick. Like a flick I am addicted. Makes me tick when tune time is lifted when life-line has it shifted to side lines I become wicked. Blues fits take over my mix. Cant fix till I get music back on my lips. But lets skip the artist drip. Attached to the hip isnt an original clip. Guess I should speak more about my style, put my number one lover in a file classified with shows, experience tiled like a work resume in the pile. Poetry was my first love, my first stage face, my first glove. Most still identify me with that buzz, and I guess its still there, just gained some fuzz. Some extra bubble for this sparkly. Within the rubble it sticks out starkly, as the poet blended in a melody it has become a part of my harmony.
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Marinda has brought a dynamic new characteristic to the familiar phrasing of the jazz/blues vocalist: she is not afraid to push the boundaries. “ The crowd is hypnotized by her original sound; a voice that finds beautifully peculiar notes and tones to compliments melodies in a way I have never heard.†Writes journalist Jamilah Abu-Bakare.
Having established herself as a spoken word performer In Halifax Nova Scotia, winning the CBC poetry face off in 2003, Marinda began to incorporate melody into her poetry. In 2005, she traveled to Dakar Senegal. Enjoying the thriving music scene that this port city had to offer, she met many musicians who inspired her to focus more energy on her own music. A few months later, she traveled to N’zerekore Guinea to facilitate creative writing workshops for Liberian refugee high school students, who shared with her their approach to songwriting and poetry. On her way back to Senegal, she became sick with Malaria, and it was during this pinnacle point in her life that she decided that if she survived, she would dedicate her life to music.
When she had fully recovered from Malaria and was back on the east coast of Canada, she began to record her first full-length album “White Noise Intermissionâ€. She took the east coast by storm, and created an immediate industry buzz that has been gaining momentum. Since then, Marinda has performed throughout the East Coast of Canada as well as in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, London UK and NYC.
She is now based in Toronto and is working on her second full-length album, entitled ‘Earthly Things’ to be released in 2009. Marinda is currently performing with a talented group of musicians, sometimes as a trio and sometimes with a full band. These musicians add a distinctive flavor to her sound, blending Jazz with Bosa-Nova, Soul, Hip-Hop, World and Funk. Their live performances are worthy of the critical acclaim they receive, taking us back to the intimate atmosphere of the jazz club, projected onto a broader artistic stage and negotiating what's been, with what's to come.
