11/7/2023 0 Comments Notion 6 jazzShe’s also performed some of at some of London’s premiere jazz venues including Ronnie Scotts and Colours Hoxton. Her impeccable live performances earned her a personal recommendation from Nile Rodgers to perform at Meltdown Festival at the Southbank Centre. Her debut EP Glory lead to support across BBC Radio 1, Rinse FM and 1Xtra. Her undeniable talent and hard work has seen the young Londoner receive overwhelming critical support. A few years later she returned to London where she attended the renowned Brit School, embracing the new emergence of the new London jazz scene. Embracing a new culture, her love affair with jazz took hold and she began to hone her songwriting craft. In London, she began her obsession with songwriting before moving to Durban, South Africa for three years as a teenager. With her most recent EP The Hard Way Around the Sun making it into Jamz Supernova’s EP Top 5 on BBC 1Xtra, and with support from BBC Introducing and BBC 6 Music too, MEI’s music is consistently finding itself shared amongst the best tastemakers in the industry.īorn in North-East London, Kianja was raised on a musical diet of soul, reggae and jazz by her musical parents. Garnering key support from the likes of Wonderland, The Independent, Rolling Stone India, Clash Magazine, Complex, Notion Magazine, gal-dem and many more, MEI’s trajectory is elevating further with every release. She has crafted a distinctive sonic world that develops with each release, showcasing her commitment to growth and discovery. MEI, who Complex hail an ‘R&B wonder’, is a South London vocalist, songwriter, producer and bassist with a unique blend of R&B, rap, alternative and electronic elements combined with soul-baring lyrics. On this special night the collective will feature three London-based-singers who blew them away at first listen: Since then, the collective has performed at festivals and in theatres, showcasing some of the UK’s finest young talent. In May 2021 Love Music Hate Racism formed a collective of musicians to pay homage to George Floyd and all victims of racial violence. She has performed with the likes of Solange, Kano on The Jools Holland Show and at the 2016 Mercury Prize and features on Little Simz‘ album Stillness in Wonderland. In particular she is interested in the visual history and facts known about ‘Blackface Minstrelsy’ and ‘The Hottentot Venus – Sarah Bartmann.’ Ms Maurice is also bandleader of KOKOROKO and plays with jazz septet Nérija, who were nominated for Jazz Fm Breakthrough Act 2016 and Parliamentary Jazz Newcomer of Year 2017 winner. Central to Ms Maurice’s music is her visual art practice where she aims to question her ‘identity’ as well as what it means ‘to misrepresent vs to be misrepresented.’ Her art provocatively explores the notion of ‘blackness’ and the hyper sexualisation of the black female body throughout history since the early 1800s. These sounds are heavily influenced by her London upbringing. Ms Maurice brings her melange of influences from organic grooves infused with 70s jazz and a touch of West African sonic seasoning. On this special night there will be performances from Ms Maurice, Saskilla, LMHR Collective ft Ashaine White, MEI and Kianja, and DJ Programma.
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