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Somi at Le Poisson Rouge

Where

Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker St
New York, NY
Map
212-796-0741

When

Wed, October 10, 2018
7:00 pm

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Musicians

Somi
vocals

About

Somi at (le) poisson rouge\n7:00 PM doors 8:00 PM show 18+\n$28 seated advance, $35 day of show $20 standing advance, $25 day of show\nBorn in Illinois to immigrants from Rwanda and Uganda, acclaimed vocalist and songwriter Somi has built a career of transatlantic sonicism and storytelling.   Petite Afrique, Somiโ€™s sophomore effort for Sony Musicโ€™s historic OKeh Records, is a daring, relevant, refashioning of what โ€œjazzโ€ and โ€œAfrican musicโ€ mean โ€“ both singularly and to each other.  The album, which won a 2018 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Album and features special guest Aloe Blacc, is a timely song cycle about the dignity of immigrants in the United States.  Equally anthropologist and writer, Somiโ€™s songs both celebrate Harlemโ€™s black experience and lament gentrificationโ€™s slow erasure of the vibrant African immigrant population from the historic neighborhood.  Petite Afrique is the highly anticipated follow-up to Somiโ€™s last chart-topping album and major label debut entitled The Lagos Music Salon which was inspired by an 18-month creative sabbatical in Lagos, Nigeria and landed at #1 on US Jazz charts.  The album, which features special guests Angelique Kidjo, and Common, draws it material from the tropical city's boastful cosmopolitanism, urgent inspiration, and giant spirit.  Somi continues to craft a fiercely original way of songmaking that straddles the worlds of African jazz, soul, and pop with a newfound ease and a voice that Vogue Magazine simply calls โ€œSuperb!โ€\nThe Boston Globe proclaims that Somiโ€™s latest work โ€œis a sustained triumph displaying rich musicality, a sharp pop sense, and rare sophistication" while The Huffington Post dubbed the young singer "the New Nina Simone." Singing in English and a wide range of African languages, her artistic evolution is indisputable.      Mentored by the great Hugh Masekela, Somi is known for bother her artistry and her activism...

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