myspace music

Taina Asili
Soul / Roots Music / Alternative

Mama Guerrilla



Albany, Philly, New York
United States

Profile Views:  35720




Last Login:  11/16/2009
View My: Pics | Playlists

   Contacting Taina Asili

 MySpace URL: 

   Taina Asili: General Info
Member Since5/4/2006
Band Websitewww.tainapoet.com
Band MembersTaina Asili - Vocalist La Banda Rebelde: Gaetano Vaccaro - guitar/saxaphone, Kiki Vassilakis - drums, Sean Muniz - bass, Bryan Brundige - trombone, Khadija Sharif - Back-up vox, Graham McEvily - cello.

Influencesinfluence collage

Atabey, mi familia, THE ANCESTORS, & all warriors fighting for liberation everywhere...
Sounds Like
Powerful poetic song painting words of resistance, love, and reclamation
over soulful rock, hip hop, and Afro-Caribbean sounds.


Taina singing

Record LabelRebel Army Media
Type of LabelIndie


Get Flash now!

In order to listen or view this content you will have to upgrade your version of Flash.



   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Oct 27 2009 8:00P
The Langdon Street Cafe Montpelier, Vermont
Oct 28 2009 8:00P
The Aphodian Portland, Maine
Oct 29 2009 6:30P
Web-radio CHOQ FM Montreal, Quebec
Oct 29 2009 8:00P
Ociel Montreal, Quebec
Nov 5 2009 7:00P
Community School of Music and Arts Ithaca, New York
Dec 4 2009 8:00P
Emerson Hall Albany, New York

Taina Asili's Latest Blog Entry  [Subscribe to this Blog]

Noche: A Night in the Mediterranean  (view more)

Now auditioning horns and percussion  (view more)

Become a Taina Asili Fan on Facebook  (view more)

Taina Asili Interview in Cincy Groove Magazine  (view more)

“Hold Fast to Dreams  (view more)

[View All Blog Entries]

   About Taina Asili


Taína Asili carries on the tradition of her ancestors, fusing present and past struggles into one poetic song-voice. She is a puertorriqueña vocalist, poet, visual artist, educator, activist and mother from Philadelphia, PA and Albany, NY. Her newest artistic work is with her live band, Taína Asili y La Banda Rebelde, soulful vocals laid over a unique infusion of rock, neo-soul, reggae, hip hop, and Afro-Caribbean sounds. The band's eclectic style represents the diversity of its band members, who have origins in Puerto Rico, Sicily, Greece, Brazil and Tanzania. Taína Asili carries a fire breathing voice of rage and resistance to venues, festivals, conferences and political events across the country. She weaves resistance, love, anti-colonialist struggle, ancestral remembrance, and more into a unique and unforgettable vocalization style. Taína is a winner of the 2005 “Transformation Award” given by the Leeway Foundation each year to a select few of women artists who profoundly use their work towards social change. Taína has shared the stage with artists such as Ursula Rucker, Sonia Sanchez, Pamela Means, Dead Prez, Immortal Technique and Tyrone Hill of The Sun Ra Arkestra. She can be witnessed in Scene and Not Heard, a documentary about women and hip hop culture in Philadelphia, also featuring Bahamadia and Monie Love. She was voted Albany’s “2006 Best Poet” in The Metroland, Albany, NY’s premier alternative news weekly. As a part of the Puerto-rock band Ricanstruction you can hear her vocals blow on their album “Love and Revolution.” Taína is now working with La Banda Rebelde on their debut album “Mama Guerrilla,” to be released in 2008 on the Rebel Army Media label.

History
Taína’s performance history and experience is as eclectic as her artistic work. Starting as a singer classically trained by a local Peruvian opera singer, Taína later found punk rock, and for eight years wrote and sang songs of rage and resistance with Antiproduct, touring the country several times and putting out four albums internationally. During this time, she fell in love with spoken word, and together with her brother, Victorio Reyes (now lead vocalist of Broadcast Live), created the spoken word group, Rebel Poets. Since that time she has sung soulful back-up vocals for numerous bands, eventually becoming her newest artistic project, Taína Asili y La Banda Rebelde.

Taína is dedicated to using her art as a tool for social transformation. Not only is her art politically conscious, but it is based in the concrete organizing she is in involved in, working in political prisoner liberation, prisoner rights, democratic education, indigenous rights, environmentalist, and holistic health movements for over 10 years. However, Taína’s main revolutionary, activist and artistic work involves raising her child... her best poetic inspiration.

Education
In addition to performance work Taína facilitates poetry workshops. She began her artistic educational work in Philadelphia at Taller Puertorriqueño, a Puerto Rican cultural center based in North Philadelphia, where she taught local Puerto Rican youth about the current struggle and resistance movement in Vieques, Puerto Rico, using poetry and drawing as their expressive voice. Taína has since taught poetry writing workshops for both children and adults, including the co-facilitation of a poetry workshop series in a women’s correctional facility in PA and refugee support center in NY. She has her MA in Transformative Language Arts from Goddard College.

How I made my profile:
I used Dave & Jay's amazing myspace profile editor.

   Taina Asili's Friend Space (Top 24)
Taina Asili has 1031 friends.
 HANDS OFF ASSATA! 


 FREE MUMIA 


 Free Leonard Peltier 


 unseenamerica 


 Broadcast Live 


 Ayana D--NEW MUSIC!!! 


 The Ameros (In Studio) 


 LETS MAKE SOME SHOWS HAPPEN! FB/abkproductions 


 ANTIPRODUCT (US) 


 Climbing PoeTree 


 Monica McIntyre 


 SISTA FAYAH 


 Withlove, Felicia 


 X-Vandals 


 The Welfare Poets Rhymes For Treason Album Page 


 Amapola 


 Yasmin Hernandez 


 Cristy C. Road 


 LA BRUJA 


 Klee 


 ReadNex Poetry Squad Follow us on Twitter!!! 


 Evan Greer 


 Ursula Rucker 


 Lila Downs 





Taina Asili's Friends Comments
Displaying 25 of 199 comments  ( View All | Add Comment )
Giorgio☆°☆

GioRgio FoNtes



Sep 17 2009 2:21 AM

Best Wishes Hermana!
shash

shash



Aug 28 2009 1:22 PM

PEACE!
sam and the slugs

sam and the slugs



Jul 22 2009 3:54 AM

thank you for finding me, i enjoyed your workshop
The Ameros (In Studio)

The Ameros  (In Studio)



Jul 20 2009 4:22 PM

Hope to see you there on Friday!


In Our Hearts

In Our Hearts



Jul 20 2009 4:22 PM

Junkhead

Junkhead



Jul 9 2009 5:52 PM

THANKS FOR THE ADD.

JUNKHEAD
A Kick Of Crimson

A Kick Of Crimson
Online Now!


Jul 9 2009 5:52 PM

I know that I speak for everybody in my band when I say that you guys were amazing at Shelter Skate Park. It was a real pleasure to listen to you!
God shows us his love in mysterious ways.

God shows us his love in mysterious ways.



Jul 8 2009 1:25 AM

anytime
The Ameros (In Studio)

The Ameros  (In Studio)



Jul 8 2009 1:24 AM

WARNING: Ameros concert imminent STOP
Incendiary Guitar Munitions Guaranteed STOP
Proceed with caution STOP

The%20AmerosQuantcast
The Ameros (In Studio)

The Ameros  (In Studio)



Jun 2 2009 4:46 PM

Make sure to catch Taina Asili y la Banda Rebelde this Saturday during the Black And Latino Gay Pride 09' then, you should get your fix of the Ameros during the evening.
The%20AmerosQuantcast
Anguile www.twitter.com/anguile

Anguile www.twitter.com/anguile



May 18 2009 10:45 PM

Thanks for the add and bein a friend,
JAh bless
Anguile B
Raquel Z. Rivera

Raquel Z. Rivera



May 11 2009 11:43 PM

"War Cry" is gorgeous!
Sha-King - twitter.com/ShaKingAllah

Sha-King - twitter.com/ShaKingAllah



May 11 2009 5:59 PM

Taino-ti my sister,
I am really diggin' the music. I hope you don't mind, I put you on my top friends...
elk singer

elk singer



May 11 2009 5:59 PM

Thanks for the add. You have an exelent voice. It is good to hear music with such roots.
Johnny Baby

Johnny Baby



Apr 23 2009 4:17 PM

Thanks for acc.
Stay positive
Johnny Baby
P L U + O

P L U + O



Apr 22 2009 3:49 PM

Your dress is madd nice! :)
The Ameros (In Studio)

The Ameros  (In Studio)



Apr 20 2009 6:15 PM

I gave a shoutout to the guys at Cabinfest for you guys.
Hope you guys can make it out!
You better be there.
Cojoba

Cojoba



Apr 15 2009 2:42 AM

likewise, you're an awesome singer.
In Our Hearts

In Our Hearts



Apr 14 2009 7:50 PM

Thanks for playing Saturday! You are amazing and we hope you come back to NYC again soon.
R-TRONIKA

R-TRONIKA



Apr 7 2009 3:50 PM

Taina is going to be a pleasure to share stage with you
at the Anarchist Book Fair after party

peace from Queens Nueva York

Los R-Tronika
Medina Carrión

Medina Carrión



Mar 27 2009 5:18 PM

Saludos Taina, un abrazo desde P.
R, los mejores deseos, éxito!!!
The Ameros (In Studio)

The Ameros  (In Studio)



Mar 30 2009 4:55 AM

Happy Birthday! Had a great time today. So here's how it's going to work, we need to hang out more, because everytime we hang out, Rebecca loves me more! Enjoy a free download of "Name Your Price for Freedom" when you join our email list.
..
..
The Sliver Party

The Sliver Party



Mar 20 2009 3:33 PM

Great music.All the best.
Caverns of Sonora

Caverns Sonora



Mar 12 2009 11:33 PM

Hi Taina, thanks for the comment. I do searches on different web sites regarding the cave to see what peoples experiences were here. That is how I came across your profile. Thank you for your kind words and I am glad you enjoyed your visit and seem to love this wonder of nature as much as we do. We currently came to myspace in hopes to further promote the cave and its beauty. thanks again.
Lionrock

Lionrock



Mar 1 2009 12:06 AM

Big up and keep on the great works.
Add Comment


©2003-2009 MySpace.com. All Rights Reserved.