Brooklyn-born poet, musician and activist aja monet brings her quartet to ALICE for her first appearance at the venue. The evening centres on her latest album "the color of rain", a more experimental record that mixes jazz, soul, hip-hop and rhythm and blues.
She was raised in Brooklyn by Cuban and Jamaican parents and began writing poetry as a child. In 2007, at 19, she became the youngest poet to win the Grand Slam title at the Nuyorican Poets Café in New York. Her 2018 poetry collection "My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter" earned a NAACP Image Award nomination, and her 2023 album "when the poems do what they do" was nominated for a Grammy.
Her ability to let words move in and out of music recalls Lonnie Holley, Gil Scott-Heron, Audre Lorde and the Beat Generation poets.
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aja monet
Grammy-nominated American poet, musician and activist born and raised in Brooklyn to Cuban and Jamaican parents. In 2007 she became the youngest Grand Slam Champion at New York's Nuyorican Poets Café, and she blends jazz, soul and political poetry.
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