Projects
Projects
My work is multidisciplinary by nature, but no matter the medium, I am always centered on a Blues sensibility that honors the past and plans for a collective future.
Original Collage Work | North Memphis Blues, 2025
Bloodbound Audio Drama
Role: Creator, Writer, & Show-runner
What is it: An immersive audio drama exploring memory, identity, and legacy.
Project year: 2023-Present
Timeline and other facts: Currently in post-production the scripted audio drama series is set in my hometown of Memphis in the early 90s. The series explores themes of inter generational differences, black economics, city change, and spirituality.
We have a cast of seasoned actors and Memphis legends who help to bring the characters to life. The project centers on themes of resilience, transformation, and generational history, inviting listeners into a world that is both deeply personal and universally resonant.
Bloodbound’s post-production is handled in partnership with Champlain College, where their Sonic Arts Department brings expertise in audio editing, sound design, and final production to bring the project to life.
Grant Partners: Georgetown University + Memphis Music Initiative
Requiem For The Enslaved
Role: Librettist & Performer
What is it: In Requiem for the Enslaved, I collaborated with Carlos Simon’s multi-genre composition as a musical tribute honoring the 272 enslaved men, women, and children sold by Georgetown University in 1838, blending original compositions with spoken word, African American spirituals and familiar Catholic liturgical melodies. In this piece I am the “Griot” telling the story of the ancestors surviving chattel slavery and their ascension to heaven.
Project Year: 2021-2024
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Role: Music Mentor, Creative Advisor, & Performer
What is it: The Adidas Sound Lab is a creative program that provides young musicians hands-on experience in studio production, performance, and professional development within a real-world music environment. I was hired by Adidas to mentor young musicians at the Adidas Sound Lab in Chicago, guiding them through studio production, stage performance, and career development while sharing my experience as an independent artist.
Project Year: 2024
Adidas Sound Lab
Grc Lnd 2030: Hip-hop Opera
Role: Librettist & Performer
What is it: After my debut album, Welcome to Grc Lnd was released in 2017, I was commissioned by Opera Memphis to adapt that album into an opera. Through that process, Grc Lnd 2030, was born.
Grc Lnd 2030 is set in a quasi-dystopian future, where yellow fever is ravaging the black community in Grc Lnd (a city modeled on Memphis). With these life and death stakes as the backdrop, a new kind of civil rights movement emerges. In April 2018 we had two sold out showings at Playhouse on the Square in Memphis, TN.
Project Year: 2018
Performance Excerpts
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Interested in collaborating?
I am open to music collaborations, features, writing commissions, and other project ideas.