I Am: Piano/Keyboard player. Producer. Songwriter. Arranger. Lover. Friend. Poet. Black. Woman. Queen. Strength. Weakness. Human. God. Intelligence. Motivation. Music. love. life. laughing. music. mypeople. goodsouls. energy. freedom.
Someone to help me change the world...
From minstrelsy to hip hop, those who created the path for the african.american artist to be heard made it possible for me to be here today... I love all music that stemmed from their creation: The obvious and the obscure: Bessie Smith, Paul Robeson, Josephine Baker, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Mingus, Keith Jarrett, Richie Valens, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Al Green, CAN, Isaac Hayes, Blondie, Michael Jackson, George Clinton baby, Sam Cooke, Sizzla, Buju, Junior Kelly, Mono, Bob Marley and his beautiful children, System of a Down, Bush, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bjork.Bjork.Bjork, KRS One, Postal Service, PJ Harvey, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Rodrigue Millien, Fela, Femi, Nirvana, Fishbone, Outkast, Miss Dynomite, The Clash, The Muse, Res, Kudu, Coldplay, Roy Hargrove, Prince.TheRevolution, Kenna, Sade, Fugees, Wycleff, Marilyn Manson, Ray Charles, D'Angelo, Raphael Saadiq, Nitin Sawhney, Brazilian Girls, Racionais MC's, Stan Getz, Antonio Carlos Jobim, The Mars Volta...Elliott Smith, Tupac the Prophet, Biggie, Frankie (Biggie and Frankie Duets!!), James Brown, Old School. New School, everything in between.Music is life.love.freedom.expression.
Gotta shout out my brother's movies: Fresh, School Daze, Do The Right Thing, The Usual Suspects, Malcolm X, Waiting to Exhale, Mo Betta Blues (holla@ Giancarlo Esposito!!!), etc...
The subliminal evil will brainwash you, beware!!!
Anything written by Gabriel Garcia Marques (especially 100 years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera), The Kite Runner, When Elephants Weep, Blindness, THE ACHEMIST, Siddartha, Tao De Ching, Bhagavad Gita, Autobiography of Marylin Manson and Quincy Jones, Behold A Pale Horse, The Chronicles Of Narnia, Song Of Solomon, A Clockwork Orange, 1984, Animal Farm