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BLITZ THE AMBASSADOR  

 

With a vision that embraces his personal West African past and a revolutionary future of Afropolitan cross-pollination, Blitz the Ambassador meshes African popular sounds, American vintage soul, and hard-hitting beats and lyrics with the help of an international cast of collaborators, including the elegant Angelique Kidjo and Afrobeat firebrand Seun Kuti.

But as always with Blitz, the album is about far more than the music. It’s about the Immigrants who made America, who shaped and molded it. Each person, each generation, each bearer of culture arriving on a boat or airplane has made an impression. Immigration is the chain that links the past to the present, the near to the seemingly far.

Afropolitan Dreams tells a story of disruption and connection that Blitz the Ambassador knows very well. He’s lived it.

“I told some of the story on my last album, Native Sun,” he explains. “That was the journey to America in search of a dream. This is a sort of continuation, but with more detail about what it’s like to start at the bottom and work up. Afropolitan Dreams was inspired by meeting peers in different disciplines. What we had in common was that we were all immigrants.”

Blitz himself arrived in the US in 2001, fresh from Ghana, where he’d grown up listening to American soul, the highlife of his homeland, the Afrobeat of Fela Kuti, and the old-school hip-hop of Public Enemy, Rakim, and KRS-One. He was ready to make his own dream real.

 

 

www.blitz.mvmt.com

LA BRUJA

 

Caridad De La Luz is a Bronx-born performer known as LA BRUJA.  She is considered one of America's leading spoken word poets.  In 2014 she was awarded Comité Noviembre’s Puerto Rican Women Legacy Award, in 2013 The Edgar Allan Poe Award for excellence in writing from The Bronx Historical Society and honored as A Bronx Living Legend by The Bronx Music Heritage Center.  She was recently presented with a Citation of Merit from The Bronx Borough President.  This Renaissance woman has performed internationally including The Apollo, The Museum of Natural History and the famed Nuyorican Poets Café where she began her career.  NY Times called her "a Juggernaut" after the off-Broadway run of her musical Boogie Rican Blvd.  Her acting career has taken her from stage to film: appearing in numerous movies including Bamboozled, Down to the Bone, El Vacilon and Gun Hill Road.  She has crossed over internationally as a recording artist with her debut album "Brujalicious" and “For Witch It Stands”.  She is featured on Prince Royce’s award-winning album "Phase II" and Bobby Sanabria’s Grammy-nominated album "Multiverse."  Well known for her captivating performance on Russell Simmons' HBO Def Poetry Jam, she was featured on HBO Latino’s installment of HABLA Women.  She works with youth throughout the country teaching poetry workshops for Pepatian.org & NYC Mission Society, is a board member of Voices UnBroken and a chartering member of Omega Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. - Delta Chapter at Binghamton University.

 

www.labrujamusic.com