Imani Uzuri Rock Quartet

Show Description

Imani Uzuri presents MOSAIC: a music series which is redefining and expanding what we call Sacred music. MOSAIC features a multicultural melange of contemporary women, artists and projects, who deliver a spiritually expansive range of healing music from Ragas to Rock!

Recently featured in the New York Times,innovative vocalist/composer/performer Imani Uzuri is an eclectic artist who creates, performs and collaborates across various genres including concerts, recordings, experimental theater, performance art and sound installations. New York Magazine has  called her work "stunning".

Provocative and dynamic, Uzuri is often compared to artists like Grace Jones and Nina Simone as one who defies category. Featured at numerous international venues/festivals from Morocco to Moscow, including Lincoln Center, Le Lieu Unique (France), Apollo Theater, Performa09, The Kitchen, Blue Note, World Festival of Sacred Music (Japan), CrimeJazz (Netherlands), Central Park Summer Stage, Barbican Center and ICA (London) Joe's Pub, Whitney Museum and The United Nations, this bohemian spirit "... never fails to mesmerize audiences with her narcotic blend of...ethereal sounds." (Time Out New York).

Her nomadic world travels and her interest in sacred music, world culture, and experimentation are reflected in her various projects including collaborations with artists as diverse as Herbie Hancock, Wangechi Mutu, King Britt, Sanford Biggers, Vijay Iyer and John Legend. She is featured in a cameo on Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek's(Reflection Eternal) timely 2010 anthem "Ballad of the Black Gold" which they all recently performed Live on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon with the Roots. Other television credits include David Letterman with Peter Gabriel and Afro Celt Sound System and she was recently featured in her own BET 2010 Black History Month campaign spot walking down 125th singing in front of the legendary Apollo. Uzuri's critically acclaimed solo debut album "Her Holy Water: A Black Girl's Rock Opera" was heralded as "one of the best of the decade" by BoldAsLove.us She is currently working on music for her forthcoming new album, a meditative and spiritual exploration.


This concert will also feature:

Neel Murgai - sitar and daf
Tarrah Reynolds - violin and vocals
Marika Hughes - cello
Christian Ver Halen - guitar

and very Special Guests!

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