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Toshi Reagon is a singer, composer, musician, producer and curator who lives in Brooklyn. Her credits include: The Blues Project (with Dorrance Dance, U.S. tour. Composer, Musician); Meshell Ndegeocello’s Can I Get a Witness: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Harlem Stage. Composer, musician); Zinnias—The Life of Clementine Hunter (Composer, music director, vocalist, musician); The Temptation of St. Anthony (New York City and European tour. Music director, instrumental composer and arranger); Bones and Ash: A Gilda Story (Urban Bush Women. Composer, music director).
Awards: Bessie Award (Blues Project), 2016 NEFA National Theater Project Award, 2015 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship, 2009 Out Music Award, the 2007 Black Lily Award for Outstanding Performance, 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts award for music composition, National Women’s History Project.
Toshi continues to tour with her band Toshi Reagon & BIGLovely. Her latest project is an opera based on the novel Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (debut Fall 2017).
www.toshireagon.com