Romance: it’s in the music on the radio all day and night long that makes me want to dance with myself in the middle of a simple living room floor.
It’s in the people outside, the neighborhood, where browner people live with all their history, music, dance, culture, struggle, and belonging to one another.
It’s in my heart, which has increased in relaxation and ambition for the people.
We who sing out loud to every song and with our hearts, cherish our artists for an entire lifetime. We are the blood and the strength of a country. Without us, civilization cannot exist.
Tattiana Aqeelwas raised and resides in Washington, D.C. Her artistic experience is in Theater, Vocal Music, and Dance. She graduated from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and then trained at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
Tattiana was one of fourteen female musicians featured in Ragnar Kjartansson’s exhibit Woman In E at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gallery in Southwest, D.C.
Musical collaborations include “Time” with renowned bassist/producer Tarus Mateen, “Lifing the Veil” album by Spiridessence, and “You” by Fly Gypsy. Tattiana has traveled and performed in Brazil, Mexico, the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Miami, and Washington, D.C.
Her self-published EP entitled Move Me is available for purchase through bandcamp.com. She plays the feature role in the independent short film Vow of Silence by Be Steadwell.
She is currently recording her premiere LP album with multi-instrumentalist/producer Yusef Kellibrew. Find Yusef’s work here.
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