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Yela

coffee is a hell of a drug...

About Me

I am an Austrian-Zimbabwean immersed in Harlemesque culture...You got to love NYC for all the live club music that is still alive in this city; that's why I am here!For booking inquiries contact: Soulution Bookings, p. 917 204 3340, www.soulutionbookings.com

My Interests

Music music music-listening to it, making it, writing it, producing it, arranging it, harmonizing it, singing it, playing it, you know... Dance all types- freestyle and especially tap, going hiking especially in the forest or jungle, drinking tea, being in the presence of good, heart warming, thought provoking people, reading, traveling

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

There is so much music that has touched me so this is a very incomplete list: Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Jimi Hendrix, Lennon/McCartney, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Gregory Isaacs, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Slum Village, The Pharcyde, Busta Rhymes,The Notorious BIG, Wu-Tang Clan, Outkast, Blackstar, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Donnie Hathaway,Curtis Mayfield, Shuggie Otis, Otis Redding, Bilal, D'Angelo, Doobie Powell, Jill Scott, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Nina Simone, Bobby McFerrin, Cassandra Wilson, Claus Ogerman, W.A Mozart, J.S. Bach, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Gustav Mahler, Djavan, Gilberto Gil, Joao Gilberto, Susana Baca, The Bulgarian Women's Choir, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Oumou Sangare, Salif Keita, Oliver Mtukudzi, Eliott Smith, Bjork, Emiliana Torrini, Nick Drake, Fiona Apple, Regina Spektor, Joni Mitchell, Massive Attack, Portishead,...

Movies:

I like epic movies eg Braveheart, some fantasy clever thrillers, and comedy

Television:

I don't have TV right now...and I like it!!!

Books:

Hermann Hesse's works, Blindness by Jose Saramago, The Unbearable lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, Amy Tan, Alice Walker, Isabel Allende, Rainer Maria Rilke his poetry and letters, Perfume by Patrick Suesskind, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wild, ...