Acantha is a native Creole beauty from the sultry city of New Orleans. Early on, she had an incredible affinity and love for singing. Growing up a Bourbon Street baby, Acantha grew up surrounded by the passion-filled energy of the BLUES. Though she appreciated the blues early on, her love affair didnt begin until she moved to New York City. She began her emotional journey at the legendary music store, Bobbys Happy Hour on 126th Street in Harlem where she purchased her first blues CD. She began listening to such blues greats as: Bobby Blue Bland, Koko Taylor, B.B. King, Elmore James, and Little Milton. Acantha knew instantly that blues music was what she had been searching for. With her passion for the blues and her love for Rock n Roll, Acantha assembled an all-star team of musicians and has been performing in some of New York's hottest entertainment venues i.e THE BOX, Joe's Pub, Cutting Room, Terra Blues, as well as, overseas in Abidjan, West Africa, Casablanca, Morocco, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Jamaica. She has shared bills with Grammy-nominated group Yuerba Buena, legendary African artist Salif Keita, and Reggae Supergroup Culture, just to name a few. Acantha has received rave reviews, appeared in a segment on BET Nightly News, the WB 11 Morning Show, NY 1, and UPTOWN magazine.
Acantha is currently working on her first blues/rock album and is ready to take the music world by storm with her power-house voice and high-octane performances. To view recent footage of Acantha performing in Abidjan, West Africa (Ivory Coast), copy and paste the following link in your browser
http://www.abidjanshow.com/a_videobox_suite.php?newsid=1935A
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