Kokayi

Artist. Producer.Educator | Connector of dots… Preeminent Improvisational Vocalist, Author, Producer, GRAMMY-nominated musician, and multi-disciplinary fine artist: 2023 Guggenheim Fellow for Music Composition, Halcyon Arts Fellow, and Nicholson Arts Fellow, TEDxWDC presenter, served as Artist in Residence at Music Meeting in Nijmegen, NL. You can hear me on over 60 titles spanning: Jazz, Hip Hop, Rock, and R&B. Author of "You Are Ketchup: and Other Fly Music Tales" (Globe Pequot). I still work as a music producer and performer, touring with my own band as well as with Ambrose Akinmusire, Terri Lynne Carrington + Social Science, Whose Hat is This?, Ego Mondo, Nate Smith +Kinfolk, Quite Sane, Sanity, Dafnis Prieto and more. “My work is an amalgamation of his life experiences as filtered through, DC, Go-Go, and the African/African American cultural influences created and passed on throughout the African diaspora.”