MUHSINAH

    MUHSINAH



I try not to listen to too many opinions about what I do, it's my expression and I try to do my expression and try, like, please whoever you know.
                                                           ~Muhsinah     

In the time of formulated and manufactured divas, comes a growing contingency of independent female artists, who are fearless, intelligent, and down to earth. These artists are creating music fundamentally sound and true to their natural essence.

Bucking trends and solid in their convictions the ladies invite the listeners on an odyssey of voluminous compositions and lush lyrics communicating to the soul. Though their music is rarely heard on mainstream radio, these media savvy women uses social media, stream music online, and live performances to reach fans old and new.

Vocalist, songwriter, musician, arranger, engineer, Grammy Nominated artist Muhsinah is a talent to be recon. As an independent artist, she has complete artistic control over her compositions and the freedom to create and set the standard of each project.

Musinah has been a musician since age 11, a native of Washington DC, graduate of Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Howard University. She is a classically trained pianist, a diverse dynamo who identifies Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Chopin, and Alice Coltrane as influences has a style of music difficult to label. She masterfully blends psychedelic soul, soul, r&b, rock, jazz, and classic music effortlessly.

She toured with Common and backed the rapper with vocals and played the synthesizers on his Universal Mind Control Tour with N*E*R*D (2008), Roots Picnic (2008 ), Sonar (2009), performed at President Barack Obama's Inaugural Ball (2009), Maxwell's Black Summer Night's Tour (2009), President Barack Obama's Democratic Rally in Hyde Park, Chicago, IL (2010), The Soul Beach Music Festival Aruba (2011).

Her performance on The Foreign Exchange's Leave it All Behind was executed smoothly on tracks Daykeeper, House of Cards, and Something to Behold, she also appeared on Common's (2008) Universal Mind Control- Changes. She released her solo efforts Oscillations: Sine (2008), Day Break (2008), Oscillations: Triangles (2010). She also recorded Lose My Fuse with producer Flying Lotus (2010).

 http://www.muhsinah.com/

VIDEOS:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4X1VUV4Zqc (YIY)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dofFlgN8xeY&feature=related (HOW GREAT)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG1uJf_KjsE&feature=related (CONSTRUCTION)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GplxJW8ez-w (HOUSE OF CARDS- THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE FEATURING MUHSINAH)