Asia Rainey
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States | INDIE
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Discography
Soul Chant - 2005
No Rainbows for the Colored - 2006
Shine (Set to Release 2011)
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Bio
As an award-winning spoken word artist and vocalist, Asia Rainey has been invited as a featured and guest performer at countless events, festivals, benefits, and educational institutions around the country. She has shared stages with artists such as the Last Poets, Mos Def, Suheir Hammad, Kalamu Ya Salaam, Charmaine Neville, and many more.
Asia has appeared in several theatre productions, as a recording artist (Jena Six Project, No Rainbows for the Colored, Her Name is New Orleans, Poet’s Collabo), in television (writer, actress of the award-winning LPHI commercial “Treat You Right,” special co-host of Between the Lines), and recently in film, in a lead role of Flood Streets (www.thehatcherymedia.com).
She is presently working on both her second book and a new CD which will include her original music and spoken word, and is completing two original poetic stage plays (Shut Up and Fly; Neutral Ground).
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