Member Since: 1/14/2006
Band Members: I sing with the singers that wanna sing, the musicians that got some soul, the producers that compose and leave the "i make beats" folks alone. Big ups to my sistas Atiyya, Stephanie Rooker, Morgan Cousins,and my cousin Anwar for holdin me down on them stages, Scott Thorough from Nuc Fam for them easy breezy guitar licks when I needed him and of course, my audience, for singing with me and givin me strength in the midst of sad songs. Ancestors regularly come through and join my stages./
Influences: Billie Holiday, Empress Nina Simone, Carmen McRae, James Brown, The Jackson Five,The Isley Brothers, Sam Cooke, Eddie Kendricks, Chaka Khan, Alicia Meyers, Bobby Womack, Anita Baker, Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba, Luther Vandross, Mary J. Blige, Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions, Willie Hutch, Aretha Franklin, Lena Horne, Rick James, Quincy Jones, Amel Larrieux, Badu, Mahalia Jackson, Bobby Blue Bland, Lauryn and Jill, Fela Anikulapo Kuti and the whole curation of Afro-Beat, Bob Marley, the whole Diaspora and its relationship through Hip Hop... traditional musics, hollers, slave songs, ring shouts, chain gang songs, prison songs,Mexican laments, South African liberation songs, jazz and blues, all soul singers, Bossa Nova, Astrud Giberlto and Antonio Carlos Jobim, Samba, Afro Peruvian music, Afro Cuban spiritual cantos and guaguanco, yambu...so many things... and of course, Oshun.
Sounds Like: This voice of myne is a focused jazz, sometimes testifyin'-like, born in the 80's new old school traditional innovative 3 octave storytelling and commentating gift from God. When I sing, anything and everything I come from presents itself. I sound like me.
Record Label: TreZure Yourself Ent.
Type of Label: Indie