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Brooklyn born and bred artist Tamar-kali is a second-generation musician with roots in the coastal Sea Islands of South Carolina. As a composer, Tamar-kali has defied boundaries to craft her own unique alternative sound.
Tamar-kali (born Tamara Colletta Brown) is a critically acclaimed American rock singer-songwriter and composer based in Brooklyn, New York. [1] Early life. Tamar-kali was born and raised in Brooklyn, a second-generation musician through her father, who was a band leader and played bass and drums in local funk and soul bands.
Jul 4, 2023 · Tamar-kali, who lives in Brooklyn, is always thinking about history, and it infuses her music. The largest expression yet is her “Sea Island Symphony: Red Rice, Cotton and Indigo,” a new work for...
Mar 7, 2024 · As a proud Brooklynite, composer Tamar-kali will often walk around her neighborhood and see a mural of America’s first Black congresswoman Shirley Chisholm. Other times, she’ll take a walk ...
Jul 14, 2023 · Culture. Features. Tamar-kali’s Songs of Liberty. The genre-defying artist’s latest work for Lincoln Center, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, is a meditation on sovereignty, creating community,...
Feb 22, 2023 · WBGO's Digital Content Manager, Jamara Wakefield spoke with the film’s composer Tamar-kali about the whitewashing of rock and roll and reclaiming the history of Black Music through Little Richard's vast legacy.
Brooklyn born and bred artist Tamar-kali is a second-generation musician with roots in the coastal Sea Islands of South Carolina. As a composer, Tamar-kali has defied boundaries to craft her own unique alternative sound. 2017 marked her debut as a film score composer.
As a composer and performer, Tamar-kali defies boundaries to craft her own unique sound and speak her lyrical truth with a supreme passion, voice and soulful intensity that will shake your foundation and shatter your expectations.
Jan 29, 2021 · Tamar-kali, who wrote the moving, spare score to Palmer — a drama starring Justin Timberlake — recalls the challenges of composing in a pandemic.
Mar 30, 2007 · Brooklyn native Tamar-kali heads her own rock band. In her lyrics and her own personal style, she blends feminist politics and afrocentricity in a way that give her hard-rock sound a...