Onome

Description:

Screen Name:

Onome

Sex:

F

Age:

29

Studio Musician:

Yes

Level Of Commitment:

Committed

Years Playing Music:

12

Gigs Played:

Over 100

Tend to Practice:

2-3 times per week

Available to Gig:

4-5 time(s) per week

Most available:

Nights

Onome (pronounced like "On a May" afternoon) is a vocalist, performance artist and poet. She comes from a long line of wordsmiths, storytellers and folk artists from Urhoboland in the Nigerian delta.

Onome's richly textured contralto draws comparisons to Sade, Nina Simone and Cassandra Wilson, yet her lush harmonics, lyrical inventiveness and genre-transcending style put her in a class of her own. At 16, she started riveting audiences nationwide with her spoken word poetry. Since then, her focus has expanded to singing and songwriting, resulting in collaborations with such acts as avant-soul band Muthawit and stutta-step producer DJ Kiva.

Her sensual mix of eclectic, euphoric sounds was recently featured on DJ Kiva's album "Degrees of Freedom," and a film score for the documentary "Making Waves, Saving Lives." Her talent as a wordsmith/songstress has been recognized by such diverse institutions as Poets and Writers and Dancetracks - where the title song for "Degrees of Freedom" reached 2 on the charts.

Onome's work tends to focus on the internal landscape of the soul, liberation, love, the nature of ecstasy, unconventional beauty in unexpected places, the infiniteness of possibility, the contradictions we negotiate as spiritual beings having human experiences, and the magical miscellaneous.

She has a music residency at La Negrita, 999 Columbus Avenue @ 109th Street in Manhattan, Sundays at 9pm. No cover. Set + open cipher. Bring your instruments!

http://www.myspace.com/onome
http://www.facebook.com/onome
http://www.onome.org (coming soon)

Influences:

Virtually everything by Dead can Dance / Radiohead / Bjork / Jimi Hendrix
Miriam Makeba's album "Africa"
O Vis Aeternitatis by everyone's favorite lesbian nun Hildegard Von Bingen
Article 3 by Meshell Ndegeocello
Berta Berta by anonymous black folk on a chain gang
O Magnum Mysterium by Vittoria
Tota Pulchra Es by Durufle
L'homme Arme by the Hilliard Ensemble

...and much musical miscellany from
Michael Jackson
Prince
TV on the Radio
Steeleye Span
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Andre 3000
Imani Coppola
K'naan
Sinead O'Connor
Erykah Badu
Tinariwen
U2
Zap Mama
Mos Def
Bobby Mcferrin
Sade
Rotary Connection
Peter Gabriel
David Bowie
Joni Mitchell
Led Zeppelin
Angelique Kidjo
Terry Callier
Cinematic Orchestra
Fiona Apple
Gnarls Barkley
Maxwell
The Roots
Simon and Garfunkel
M.I.A

Equipment List:

-SM 58 Shure mic with xlr cord
-ZOOM H4 mp3/wav recorder
-ProTools LE 6.9.2
-Reason 3.0

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