The Get to Freedom: Organize Showcase features performances from Taina Asili and Yazmin Monet Watkins!
Taína Asili
Puerto Rican vocalist Taína Asili carries on the tradition of her ancestors, fusing past and present struggles into one soulful and defiant voice. Her newest artistic work is with la Banda Rebelde (the Rebel Band), a six piece ensemble based in Albany, NY. This dynamic force brings love, resistance, and ancestral remembrance to venues, festivals, conferences and political events across the globe. Powerful vocals laid over an energetic fusion of Afro-Latin, reggae, and rock, the band’s eclectic style offers a sound that spans continents, with heartfelt lyrics sung in multiple languages. Taína Asili’s voice exudes strength of Spirit, filling its listeners with the fervor of freedom and inspiring audiences to dance to the movement of rebellion.http://tainaasili.com/
Yazmin Monet Watkins
Yazmin Monet Watkins is an internationally touring spoken word poet and actress based out of Los Angeles, CA. She has performed everywhere from the Bahamas to London to Paris to New York to California and several places in between. A few of her college shows include Harvard, UCLA, Howard, UC Santa Cruz and she has opened for the likes of Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Les Nubians and Angela Davis. She is the author of "Love Without Limits: The Bi-Laws of Love," a collection of poems that emerges in the literary world under the self-coined - poetography genre- a piece of art that combines both poetry and photography. 'Love Without Limits' explores Watkins' journey through love, sexuality, religion, heartache, and the eventual discovery of self-love. Her poetry explores the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, religion, sexual violence and identity. Watkins believes in the power of peace, love, laughter, freedom and empowering others through art. http://www.yazminmonetwatkins.com/
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