The New York-based musician, Radha, is set to storm Nigeria for a tour to promote her single titled, ‘Wrong Man’s Land’.
According to her Nigerian handler, DJ Raybee Bola Brown, the date for the tour will definitely be soon.
“Born to perform, she has been doing so since she was five. A member of the Messenger Group, a music, poetry and drama organisation in Guyana, her mother, Rajkumari Singh, has always been her teacher putting her through with diction and performance,” the DJ, who just returned from a tour of New York, said.
Radha has won accolades in many national competitions for verse speaking and drama. An accomplished dancer, Radha studied kathak and ballet with her brother, Sri Gora Singh.
Since her move from Guyana to New York with her family at a young age, she has continued dramatic studies at Herbert Berghof Studios, Sullivan Walker and Pace University. She has gone on to specialise in voice at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, studying under renowned vocal teachers, Andrew Frierson and Bonnie Kirk.
Her musical emphasis may be rhythm and blues, but she infuses traditional Indian motifs into her compositions, using Indian drums and Vedic hymns with riveting Latin percussion and primordial sounds. Her musical style has multi-national appeal and she has been well received in concert venues across Europe, Canada and the United States.
Her recorded works have been rated and reviewed by the DJ record pools across the U.S. and she has performed live in popular New York clubs – CBGB’s, the China Club, SOB’s, The Fez, and the Mega 95 FM Summer Concerts.
As a solo singer and bandleader, she received rave reviews from Village Voice, Daily News, NY Times, Associated Press, and magazines as India Abroad and mainstream, contemporary journals.
Her recording, ‘You’re The One’, was a hit at the Lincoln Center Out-Of-Doors Indo-Caribbean Festival of Music Dance in Damrosch Park.
Explaining that she had performed in series of concerts with a jazz and blues ensemble in New York metro and Tri State venues, DJ Raybee said the concert going crowd in Nigeria will be delighted to have her.
As well as producing and collaborating on a Vedic Chants CD, her theatre credits include: The Seagull, A View from the Bridge, Antigone, Karna &Kunti, Sullivan Walker’s Caribbean Woman and Godspell. She also wrote original works and performed in Kitchrie 1998 – 2002, Kitchrie 03 drama, ‘Chaykay’ marked her directorial debut.