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Download Recent Indie Releases on BandCamp & Last.FM
http://asialakay.bandcamp.com/album/crowdpleaser
(electronica – hip hop – jazz – dub)
http://asialakay.bandcamp.com/album/rock-sugar
(r&b – electronica – hip hop – soul – lyrical – collab)
http://www.last.fm/music/%3Aasia%29/Round+Midnight
(Vocal – Covers – Downtempo)
http://www.last.fm/music/%3Aasia%29/Love+Can+Conquer
(Instrumental – IDM – Breaks)
ASIA LAKAY GRADY BIO
Asia Lakay Grady comes from a family of award winning musicians, cultural historians and creative entrepreneurs. Her Live PA act includes original songs and improvised vocals.
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She was born and raised in Dorchester, Mission Hill, and Lynn, Massachusetts. Her company, ALG Media, LLC currently resides in Denver, Colorado. Growing up in the 80′s and 90′s, she developed a love for electronic music, poetry and spoken word which resulted in her first press mention in the arts section of the Boston Globe at the age of 19. Before this she was singing in church, on the school yard, and in musicals in her hometowns.
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Asia Lakay Grady was nominated for a scholarship by her high school music teacher. After winning a System-5 scholarship to Berklee College of Music, she began collaborating on stage and in the studio with a range of musicians, both locally, and internationally. By the time she completed high school and was mid-way through college, she set a goal of learning how to publish audio independently.
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In between working several jobs including waitressing, temp office work, tutoring, retail, security, live performances and modeling, she attended classes at Bunker Hill Community College and The New England Institute of Art. In college, she became a go-to person for live performances, recording vocals, artist booking and studio assistance.
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In 2004, she left Boston and established residency in Henderson, NV. It was there that she began to create the first drafts of the music that colleagues said, “seemed to come out of her head”. She drew inspiration from sounds by classic and contemporary reggae, hip hop, electro, breakbeat and r&b groups.
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Some of the artists that she credits as major inspirations include Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Prince, Lisa Stansfield, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Afrika Bambaataa, Chaka Khan, Queen Latifah, Aaliyah, Missy Elliot and Timberland, Shirley Bassey and the Propellerheads, Lauryn Hill and the Fugees, The Neptunes and N.E.R.D., The Gorillaz, Hot Chip, Nine Inch Nails, Sade, Felix the Housecat, Erykah Badu, Lee Scratch Perry, Outkast, RZA and the Wu Tang Clan.
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Today, she divides her time between creating audio, performing live, attending local shows, building her digital photography portfolio, doing web design for local businesses, and engaging in social media making new friends and fans, while mastering the business side of music.
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Since living in Colorado, she has expanded her live performance repertoire to include up to 2 hours of original songs and jazz standards ranging from Round Midnight, Night in Tunisia and God Bless the Child. Because of her certainty in the unity of all living beings, her creative passion, and her open-mind for collaboration with a broad range of hip hop, electronic, reggae and rock artists locally and internationally via the web, asia lakay grady is poised to continue providing music that “paints a picture”, lyrics to “burn a hole in your soul”, and uplifting or mellow vocals to fill you with some “new light”.
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1995
Colonial Theatre, Boston, MA
w/ Optimistic Youth Troupe for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
1996
The Wang Center, Boston, MA
w/ Young At Arts, for Making Connections
2000
Emerson College Student Film, Plastic Madonna
by Chris Dottino
2000
Live @ Lawrence Dominican Festival, Lawrence, MA
w/ Miss Roselin, soul, jazz, gospel
2000
Documentary Screening at the Institute of Contemporary Art
w/ Fast Forward, Young Filmmakers Program, Boston, MA
2000
Original Spoken Word recording included in Critical Breakdown’s compilation CD
American Friends Service Committee, Cambridge, MA
2001
Live @ The Milky Way, Boston, MA
w/ Foundation Movement
2002
Live @ Bunker Hill Community College, Charlestown, MA
w/ Statik Selectah
2005
Live @ Cervantes, Denver, CO
Live @ The Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO
w/ DJ Uplifter & De Apostle – (Reggae / Dancehall) – from VI, West Indies
2006
Live @ Vermont Reggae Festival
w/ Dis N Dat band (Reggae / Neo Soul) – Live – Trinidad/Jamaica/US
2006
Live @ Blackberries, Five Points, Denver, CO
w/ Kid Hum & DJ Lazy Eyes (turntablism)
2008
Live @ Herbs, Denver, CO
Live @ Jazz at Jacks, Denver, CO
w/ Future Jazz Project (live electronica / soul / jazz) – Live – US – Colorado
2009
Live @ The Loft, Denver, CO
w/ Joy C (hip hop / pop / soul) – Live – US – Colorado
2009
Live @ Club Luna, Denver, CO
w/ J Cook of Street Philosofee and Ottomatic of Sound Pollution
2009
Live @ Owsleys, Denver, CO
w/ Whygee
2009
Live @ Herbs, Denver, CO
w/ Soul Daddy and the Blackfyre Band – Live – US – Colorado
2009
Live @ The After Hours Spot, Denver, CO
w/ Timbuk (acid jazz & electronica DJ) – Live – US – Colorado
2010
Live @ The Rocket Room, Colorado Springs, CO
Live @ The After Hours Spot, Denver, CO
w/ Parvata (dubstep producer / DJ) – Live/Recording – US – Colorado -
2010
Live @ The Rocket Room, Colorado Springs, CO
w/ Animus Individus (acoustic electric improv dance) Live – US – Colorado -
2006
- Dumb $h!t
w/ Fressh (hip hop songwriter) – Recording – US – Massachusetts
2007
- 11th Hour
- Call Me
- In My Arms
w/ – Sistine Criminals (live drum & bass) – Recording – US – New York
2009
- Starting With Tonight
w/ E$coe (hip hop / electronica / dance) – Recording – US – Colorado
2009
- Problems, I Want the Money
w/ J Cook (of Street Philosofee) and Ottomatic (of Sound Pollution)
2009
- Never
w/ Mike Wird
2009
- Simple Things
- You’d Love -
w/ Awareness of Calm. and Dirty Laboratory
2009
- Thanks to Critical Breakdown
- On the Grind
- Summer Breezes
w/ Kid Hum of Fossil Fuel Records (Instrumental)
2009
- In the Courtyard -
w/ Ross Da Boss of Northern Lights Entertainment
2009
Coming Through
w/ Big J Beats (of 1984) (live MPC)
2009
- In My Arms (remake)
w/ Nofrendo
2009
Caught Up
w/ Jazz Spastiks (Scottland)
2010
- Pushing Daisies
w/ Mr. Lingo (of Live Manikins)
2010
- All the Things
w/ DJ Belasco Black
2010
- Ride With Me
w/ Parvata
Asia Lakay’s Booking Info | Home Recordings & Production Demos | Production Collaborators
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