Archives: Artists

Carmen Bardeguez-Brown is a poet and educator from Puerto Rico, She migrated to the United States in 1981 courtesy of American Airlines and the colonial quid pro quo status. A […]

Irka Mateo sings Afro-Dominican folk music and writes music for accordion and guitar-led songs inspired by the indigenous/ Afro/ European folk traditions of her native country and Latin America. Irka […]

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. —Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was a poet, author, editor, and literary critic, […]

Charlie Vásquez is an author, editor and Director of the Bronx Writers Center at Bronx Council on the Arts. He served as event coordinator for Puerto Rico’s Festival de la […]

Project X is led by Bobby Sanabria where he per- forms innovative and experimental projects. Project X is: Bobby Sanabria on drums, vocals; Peter Brainin on saxophone & flute; Andy […]

Sadat X, (born Derek Murphy) is a member of Brand Nubian, and was one of the key MCs whose messages were inspired by the Five Percent Nation. Two years after […]

Flo Kennedy interlaces her melodic voice with venomous rhymes of truth, staying true to her name. The 22 year old emerging femcee and Harlem native is “politicking to her people […]

DJ Illanoiz was born and raised in Chicago. He began DJing in 1992 at the Alcatraz night- club. When he moved to Birmingham, AL in 1997 he joined the BMW […]

Led by flutist Jessica Valiente and formed in 1995, Los Más Valientes brings together some of today’s finest Latin musicians. Collectively, the band’s resume reads like a who’s-who of New […]

Jeff Lederer is a New York-based saxophonist-clarinetist/composer/educator whose work crosses the genres of jazz, Latin and creative improvised music. In 2014 he has been named in both the critics and […]