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AngeliQ Piti a Piti
Iyeoka Gold A complete Artist
Iyeoka Okoawo is a complete artist. Poet, recording artist, singer, activist, educator and TEDGlobal Fellow. Her music includes elements from soul, R&B, rock, hip hop, and jazz. A first-generation Nigerian American, Iyeoka Okoawo was a practicing pharmacist before launching her musical career.
She began her musical career by founding the group The Rock by Funk Tribe, a collective of musicians that enabled her to interweave her poetry with jazz, blues, funk, and gospel. In 2004, she released her first solo full-length album of poem-songs, called Black and Blues, through Phanai Records. Then she began to tour and appeared on other artists’ albums, including The Press Project’s Get Right album and Memoirs of the Tempo by Tempo Valley.