Artist Information
Biography
"AMONG THE TOP FEMALE ARTISTS" - THE SOURCE MAGAZINE
#1 SINGLE-"KINGQUEEN"&"RYZE"MP3(TOP 1000) HIP-HOP CHARTS
"BEST FEMALE HIP-HOP ARTIST"
BOSTON MUSIC AWARDS
Coming out of Ct., NYC, Boston and now Miami, rises an EMCEE thats taking the hip-hop world and entire music world by storm and to a whole other dimension of lyrical expression and perception of what's real. Every word flowed from this Queen is absorbed in consciousness and spirit, forcing the listeners to listen, thinkers to think and musical lovers to hear. With help from artists like India arie, Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill, new doors have opened in the industry allowing a recording artist like Soulflower to walk through and blow up!
On stage Soulflower becomes lightning & thunder, an electric roar. In her over 15 years of performing as an Emcee/singer/poet , Soulflower has performed with some of the biggest recording artists of today and yesterday,
Including Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, Outkast, The Roots, The Fugees, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Black Eyed Peas, Common, Pharoah Monch, KRS1,Jeru,Poor Righteous Teachers, Goodie Mob,Patty Labelle, Isaac Hayes, Fishbone, George Clinton & Parliament, StoneTemple Pilots,
Third Eye Blind, Ziggy Marley,Buju Banton,Beenieman, Bill Bellamy,The Last Poets, Amiri Baraka, Saul Williams, Jessica Care Moore and many others.
Soulflower is produced by the King of KingQueen Productions, Kavayah, Former bass player for Arrested Development and producer of many extraordinary soon to come artists. Through his heavenly blessed gift of taking a musical vision and being able to pick up almost any instrument and manifest it, he along with Soulflower have taken hip-hop into neosoul,jazz,rock,reggae,alternative,jungle and spoken word
All the while maintaining it as Hip-Hop with extreme commercial appeal.
Being co-President of KingQueen Productions, which includes a record label and full production company, founder of "Queendome", a worldwide organization of conscious women in the arts,host of "RAIZE IT UP!"on Miami's 94.5FM,neice of "R&B hall of famer" BETTY WRIGHT and longtime member of the Universal Zulu Nation, Soulflower has built up a local, national and international following. Her song "ENUF'sENUF" can be heard on the commercials for Burdines and she has been featured in many magazines and other publications,several hip-hop documentaries, mix-tapes and has appeared and been played on dozens of radio stations worldwide.She has also proven herself not only as a female MC, but as a true MC, by winning many local and international MC battles.
Soulflower has performed in front of crowds as large as
100,000 people and has won over audiences from all styles of music and from the underground to the mainstream.
Instrumentation
PERFORMS WITH AND WITHOUT BAND DEPENDING ON SHOW.
SOULFLOWER LEAD VOCAL/BASS
BACKROUND VOCALIST
ELECTRIC/ACOUSTIC GUITAR
ELECTRIC BASS
DRUMMER
KEYS
DJ
# OF BANDMEMBERS DEPENDS ON SHOW
Discography
1st CD BUILDING FOR THE BATTLE
2nd CD LOVE+LIGHT=LIFE
3rd CD ELECTRIC MOTHERSHIP
TRACKS GETTING AIRPLAY,I AM featuring KRS ONE "KINGQUEEN",YOUNG GIRL","WILDWORLD",
"LOST SOUL,"BLESS YOU",WAR NO MORE"
Official Website
http://www.myspace.com/soulflower777
Links
Video
Press
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"AMONG THE TOP FEMALE ARTISTS"
"SOULFLOWER IS AMONG THE TOP FEMALE ARTIST IN HIP-HOP TODAY."
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"HYPNOTIZES THE CROWD"
THE DREADLOCKED SOULFLOWER'S REVOLUTIONARY VOICE HYPNOTIZES THE CROWD"
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"CAN STAND UP TO ANY EMCEE."
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"SHE GREETS THE AUDIENCE WITH PEACE AND A BRIGHT SMILE, THEN SHE SHOCKS THE CROWD WITH POWERFUL LYRI...
Setlist
"KINGQUEEN" "YOUNG-GIRL"
"WILDWORLD"
"WAR NO MORE
"WAKE UP CALL"
"I AM"
"BLESS YOU"
My typical sets are anywhere from 15 to 45 min.
