Kokayi

Kokayi

Fellow: Awarded 2023
Field of Study: Music Composition

Competition: US & Canada

Artist. Producer.Educator | Connector of dots Preeminent Improvisational Vocalist, Artist, Producer, GRAMMY-nominated musician, multi-disciplinary fine artist and author provides Creative DSGN for Grammy-nominated artist Goldink and artist/musician Guillermo Brown (James Corden Show).

He can be heard on over 60 titles spanning the genres of: Jazz, Hip Hop, Rock, and R&B. Music Supervisor for Untitled Interactive Games. Chief Ideator and co-curator of BeatsnBeans: a discussion series on creativity, coffee culture, and the reimagining of creative spaces. 2023 Guggenheim Fellow for Music Composition, Halcyon Arts Fellow, and Nicholson Arts Fellow.  He states that his “work is an amalgamation of his life experiences as filtered through, DC, Go-go and the culture begat from the African diaspora”.

Photo Credit: Kirth Bobb

Scroll to Top