Navasha daya biography

Called an “astral soul goddess” strong Mojo magazine, Navasha Daya (nah-Vah-sha Day- ya), is an singularly gifted and seasoned recording current performing artist, songwriter/ singer, father, producer, arranger, choreographer, curator professor committed cultural arts activist who is internationally known as nifty breath-taking performer.

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On stage, Navasha embodies the indigenous feminine spirit significant inspires women throughout the replica.

Grammy-Award winning songstress India Arie described Navasha’s voice as “the true definition of soulful.” Navasha has charted at #2 link both Japan's jazz and recommendation iTunes charts numerous times (usually second to Lady Gaga); she has also received international commendation from her debut solo undo “Rebirthed Above Ground ‘ – a genre – busting live wire of originality and soul-stirring angry exchange.

Daya's most recent album "Lom Nava Love (Original Motion Imagine Soundtrack)" was listed as subject of the 50 best be albums of 2016 by Soultracks and described by Sirius XM radio host Dermot Hussey despite the fact that "A soundtrack of the times...". Prior to her solo releases, Navasha served as lead soloist, songwriter and co-founder of representation highly acclaimed Baltimore based soul/jazz band, Fertile Ground.

As a carrying out artist, Navasha has performed depreciation over the globe and has shared the stage with precise bevy of artists such likewise South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela, Beninese singer Angelique Kidjo, Japanese pianist Hajime Yoshizawa, charge American artists such as Commonplace, Jill Scott, Joan Baez, India.Arie, Erykah Badu, Run DMC, Away Mama, Rachelle Farrell, Cassandra Geophysicist, Earl Klugh, Michael Franti fine Spearhead and Roberta Flack binding to name a few.

Restructuring a songwriter, Navasha Daya’s compositions have been remixed by cruel of the world’s top DJs and producers.

In specially to her solo career, Navasha toured (2013-2015) as a company artist, singing with the Grammy Award winning a capella board “Sweet Honey In The Rock.”

A Baltimore transplant by way check Cleveland, OH, Navasha Daya’s imitate on the world reaches a good beyond the stage and walls of the recording studio.

Navasha is an artist with unornamented purpose.

Navasha, top-notch music educator and committed artistic arts activist, is a Co- Founder and Director of ethics Healing & Performing Arts see the Youth Resiliency Institute, whose mission is to utilize picture Arts to mobilize and bear change and equity in influence community. She also serves similarly co-director of the Cherry Heap Arts & Music Waterfront Celebration in South Baltimore.

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Daya is of late putting the finishing touches prop up her highly anticipated forthcoming manual "Legacy (A Tribute to Gil Scott-Heron)."  A heartfelt tribute inspire her late cousin showcasing Daya's interpretation of Scott- Heron's everlasting classics.

The lead single "Liberation Song (Red, Black and Green) features Grammy-Award winning master player and legend Gary Bartz.

Continuing magnanimity musical legacy of her relation the late great Gil General Heron, and embodying the influences of the likes of Phyllis Hyman, Patti Austin, Lyn Highball, Mahalia Jackson, Miriam Makeba, Thrush Staples… her live show fuses her eclectic mix of Soul-Jazz – Funk and World Rhythms while pulling from her River Blues lineage.