Onome and several collaborators / kindred spirits along the way, including DJ Kiva (dj/producer), Margaret Morris (dancer/choreographer/vocalist), Keisha Turner (dancer/performer), Clay Schaub (bass), Raymond Daniel Medina (guitar/electronica).
Influences
Dead can Dance, Jimi Hendrix, Bjork, Radiohead, Miriam Makeba, Bobby Mcferrin, Prince, E. Badu Negro spirituals and work songs and ringshouts, Latin liturgical chants, Rotary Connection, David Bowie, Meshell Ndegeocello, Joni Mitchell, Terry Callier, Zap Mama, Sade, Andre 3000, TV on the Radio, folk music from all over the world, throat singing, and much much more
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. Also, her writing is featured in the upcoming anthology "goodbye Billie Jean: the Meaning of Michael Jackson."
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.
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