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OneBeat Alumni Spotlights January 2016 | Ft: LADAMA, Maskeliade Street Studios, 1Beat Inhambane

In our January 2016 OneBeat Alumni Spotlights, we feature projects and news that showcase our alumni actively engaging with their communities and making a difference through music and art.  Sara Lucas, Aurora Nealand, Daniela Serna, Maria Gonzalez, & Lara Klaus | “LADAMA” OneBeat 2014 + 2015 | US, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil The LADAMA ensemble, comprised of five OneBeat alumni from Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and the U.S., is gearing up for their first tour in South America!  The ensemble is made up of Lara Klaus (’14), Maria Gonzalez (’14), Daniela Serna (’14), Sara Lucas (’14) and Aurora Nealand (’13). They’ll be embarking on a two month-long tour to Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela starting in February, giving free workshops and public performances with the goal of fostering creativity among youth and women in their respective communities through music-making, sound design, composition and audio production. We’re incredibly excited to see this project come to fruition, […]
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OneBeat Alumni Spotlights December 2015: Kyla-Rose Smith, Aquil Charlton and Sanaya Ardeshir

In our December 2015 OneBeat Alumni Spotlights, we feature projects and news that showcase our alumni actively engaging with their communities and making a difference through music and art.  Kyla-Rose Smith – Hear Be Dragons OneBeat 2014 Fellow             ​This past spring, Kyla-Rose Smith designed and led Hear Be Dragons, a community-based education and creative arts initiative designed to bring together young people to map the sonic landscape of their lives. The core of the project was a series of workshops in Cape Town, South Africa and Brooklyn, where groups of participants (ages 18-22 years old) investigate the ways in which sound and the urban environment influence our quality of life, our perception of history and memory, and our notions of identity, place and time. Through audio recordings and conversations around neighborhood identity, each group developed a set of original sound pieces or songs, eventually […]
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Blinky Bill Launches his Solo Project

Producer and frontman for Just A Band, Bill Sellanga (2013), aka Blinky Bill, has recently launched a fresh solo project, and continues his collabs with Mitya Burmistov (Russia 2013). But this hasn’t taken any steam away from Just a Band, which just launched a track with Macklemore’s trumpeter Owuor Arunga. In addition to creating funky and heartbreaking music, and being a 2014 Ted Fellow and Red Bull Music Academy Fellow, Bill is a champion of emerging African art and innovation. As he describes in the OneBeat video “Blooming”: “I’m coming from a continent that has struggled, but also has a lot of victory and a lot of positive things, and a lot of forward-thinking minds. So that’s part of the narrative that I’m passionate about spreading with music.”