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| Taina Asili y La Banda Rebelde |
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Taína Asili carries on the tradition of her ancestors, fusing present and past struggles into one poetic voice. She is a puertorriqueña vocalist, poet, visual artist, educator, and community organizaer from Philadelphia, PA and Albany, NY. Her newest artistic work is with her live band, Taína Asili y La Banda Rebelde, soulful vocals laid over a unique infusion of Afro-Caribbean, reggae, rock, hip hop, and flamenco and sounds. The band’s eclectic style represents the diversity of its band members, who have origins in Puerto Rico, Sicily, Greece, Brazil and Ghana. Taína Asili carries a fire breathing voice of rage and resistance to venues, festivals, conferences and political events across the country, weaving rebellion, love, and ancestral remembrance into an unparalleled vocalization.
Taína is a winner of the 2005 Transformation Award given by the Leeway Foundation each year to a select few of women artists who profoundly use their work towards social change. Taína has shared the stage with artists such as Ursula Rucker, Sonia Sanchez, Pamela Means, Dead Prez, Immortal Technique and Tyrone Hill of The Sun Ra Arkestra. She was voted Albany’s “2006 Best Poet” in the Metroland, Albany, NY’s premier alternative news weekly. She can be witnessed in Scene and Not Heard, a documentary about women and hip hop culture in Philadelphia, also featuring Bahamadia and Monie Love. As a part of the Puerto-rock band Ricanstruction you can hear her vocals blow on their album Love and Revolution. Taína has just completed her debut album with La Banda Rebelde entitled War Cry, to be released this March 2010 on Caona Media record label. |
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