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Influences
So many to name but here's a few: My mother Amal, the island of Maui, Sarah Jones, Bahamadia, Persia, Afi Ayana, West Coast Underground Music, J-Boogie, DJ LP, JB R.A.P., Nar, Lady Bug Mecca, DJ Trinity, Scarletto, Audiopharmacy, DJ Divinity, Femi Kuti, Bob Marley, Lauryn Hill, Jill Scott, D.U.S.T. , my community, Aza, UMA Productions, Malcolm, Black Tie Records, Love, DJ Black, African rythms from round the continent, Good Food, all Females in this game of producing and performing their dreams, all the men who can stand behind a strong woman, nasty grimey beats, a break up, a hook up, and all in between.
BRASS BOWS & BEATS first run April 2009 @ The Palace of Fine Arts, SF
Aima live with Realistic Orchestra
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I had the honor of playing with Realistic Orchestra in San Francisco. These Catz are the real deal! Fierce and phenomenal. If you like this....check out Jazz Mafia and Brass Mafia. One.
Carnival SF 09 @ The BodiRock Culture tent. Rene Flores on Conga! Raw G repping femcees! DJ Divinity holding it down on T-Tables.
This was a dream come true. Rocking with one of UK's finest. The Herbaliser!!
BodiRock Culture Ladieez repping and high stepping! Go ahead gurl, go on get down!
MC Persia my other Half of Mamaz!
Lorin Bassnectar on Beats
Sounds Like
Truth wrapped in silk put in a bottle slipped into the Pacific Ocean and sent out to sea to be found with rythmic soul by the young and old.
Celena delPHI - DJ-lyricist-poet; Dakini staR - MC-lyricist-poet
e.Ma Luna - MC-lyricist-poet; Nikila 'mamawisdom' - Melodic vocalist-poet
Aima the Dreamer - MC-lyricist-poet; ****SONG: lustre queens
Freestyling with the Best of the Bay: Shotgun Wedding Quintet. Dublin is so ill!
B.A.S.S./Bay Area Sistah Sound (bassladydjs.com) celebrated the Everlasting Bass 1 Year Anniversary on March 7, 2009 featuring residents Pam the Funkstress & DJ Zita with special guest DJs Daneekah, GreenB, Celskiii, Deeandroid, ShredOne, Roza, Similak Chyld, and live performances by Aima the Dreamer and Bodirock Culture
GODDESS ALCHEMY PROJECT FEAT AIMA THE DREAMER, TINA MALIA, SASHA ROSE! BLOWING MINDS IN '09!!!
Aima was born in Chicago and spent most of her developing years in Maui, Hawaii.From the time she was 13,
Aima honed her microphone skills from being a singular young woman amongst the male-dominated world of Hip Hop.
It was never an easy struggle. Aima chose not to identify with false positions and negative role assigned to women
in Hip Hop. She refused to embrace ignorant notions of misogyny and rising attitudes of violence toward women.
She began performing in theater groups, spoken word open mics, local Hip Hop cyphers which lead to her wide
genre of lyrical skills including spoken word, emcee, freestyle, and improv. Within her content is clearly articulated
styling, tangible yet fluid subtext, all backed by themes that are at once theraputic while projecting inspiration that
soothe the heart and satisfies the soul. Aima has played on the same stages with such artisit as J Boogie, Invincible, Crown City Rockers, Lady Bug Mecca, Zion I, Jen Ro, Aya de Leon, DJ Vadim, Duece Eclipse, Brass Mafia, Goddess Alchemy Project, Abstract Rude, Medusa, Blu, just to name a few. Aima fits right into the evolution of Hip
Hop by re-defining the delivery and the sound. As she takes posession of the stage and the microphone with a cool
fluid grace. Aima is versatile blending social, political, and emotional topics with all types of music from Hip Hop,
trip hop, dance hall to drum & bass, electro, and house. Her upcoming projects include the release of the Mamaz
album " The Birth". Mamaz include Aima and Persia in a dynamic tag team duo bringing that feminine medicine to Hip Hop. Mamaz will also be featured on J Boogie's Dubtronic Science 'Soul Vibrations' scheduled to be released on OM records this year 2008. Check Mamaz out at myspace.com/mamazhouse
I miss you! Climbing Poetree will be staying with me starting FRiday. I hope you are coming with us all to the Nneka show at Cafe Du Nord. November 20th. I will call you. Peace mama
aww thank you i love your work your style you are so beautiful....Im fron Brooklyn..but Ive been traveling alot..when I go back to visit the fam before I leave to Japan I will mos defenitely let you know so if I can get a gig working on you ? I would be most flattered girl I would be jumping for joy lol thanks again hun
no, no, no, YOU'RE amazing!!! lol ;) Aima da Dreama whas GOOD?! yes girl, we goin have to put a dent in a track! I got a few good ones I'm sittin on, but I might have to brush up a bit after hearin your ILLEST NOISE flow! Thas Chi town fo' ya! lol ;)
HOPE YOUR DOING WELL TODAY. GOT SOME YOUTUBE CLIPS FROM CARNAVAL!! OH... AND WE'RE DOING MY BIRTHDAY BASH @ CLUB 6 ON 6/27!! COME THRU AND HAVE A DRINK WIT YA GIRL ROCK STARRR!!!
Hafa adai, Boon-Dawg! Sending you lots of Love & Prayers always, Mama! I'm a do my first hip-hop performance this Saturday at the Venue for "Hush Playground" YEAH!!! My familia and I may hopefully be visiting the States this summer so, we'll see. Holla atcha Boon-Dawg, Ms.
