Black & Blues

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Produced by Francis Phan and Iyeoka Okoawo
Featuring Bryonn Bain and Omoizele Okoawo

Iyeoka's poetry is simply passionate and unforced. Her melodies sway in a way that strengthens the music that accompanies her. The echo of honest vulnerability is a hint to her audience that she has been hurt before. With her personal messages, Iyeoka lets the listener into her private world. Accompanied by The Jeff Robinson Trio and producers Francis Phan and Oz, her songs are a mix of old blood fused with an uncategorized new flesh sound. This combination carefully manages a balanced back and forth between music and spoken word. The instrumentation is just as emotional and just as human as the voice that envelops it. Black and Blues is a strong assortment of loss and love, courage and survival, blessed with the burst of faith to be reborn in the skin of the empowered women. By this connection, Iyeoka creates a force of empathy. Iyeoka will encourage you to sing with her at her live shows and you will find yourself singing these songs in lonely cars driving down long highways or sitting in your apartment sipping on a glass of red wine. You will find yourself whispering her lyrics on your way from your desk to the water cooler. With Black and Blues, Iyeoka has put pen to paper and created an album of moments that in their impact have the ability to reach across race, gender, and age.