#2 - Simi Murumba

What this episode covers

Simi Murumba is a multi-instrumentalist, writer, arranger, composer, and circle singing facilitator, who is passionate about the healing power of collective creativity. As a one-woman-band, she embodies black girl magic. Her rich and uplifting production style is genre-fluid, but when asked to be more specific she’ll tell you that her sonic palette is a mix of organic, eclectic, ethnic, and worldly. That it draws from the ancestral. Having been a member of widely varied music projects in New York and New Orleans, from fronting trap-pop duo Baeb Rxxth, to touring as drummer for the experimental Kalbells and punk trio Sharkmuffin, to working as a teaching artist for Carnegie Hall, Simi has saved her most personal deep dives for her solo work. Growing up in Minneapolis, Simi was immersed in a multicultural household where song and dance were her first language. This special connection has been the foundation of her pathway to music, a therapeutic medium that Simi has been actively working toward for her entire life. "It's always been a method of survival,” she explains. “Even when I was writing songs and poems when I was a little kid, it was a way of exploring the worlds of deep emotion.” Links to Simi: @simi_yuyu https://linktr.ee/nasimiyu

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