Born and raised in the wake of the Black Power Movement in Detroit Mi, Ashara Ekundayo aka BluBlakwomyn has a sonic palate deeply cultivated by soul, deep house, gospel and r & b mixed with protest chants and poetry. Her work in service to community explores cultural identity, memory, liberation, and place and space through spellcasting, spirituality, and history as an independent curator, arts administrator, visual maker and founder of the Artist As First Responder collective. Some of her past Bay Area-based creative venues have included Impact Hub Oakland, Omi Gallery, Ashara Ekundayo Gallery and Black [Space] Residency. She's currently stewarding an experimental pop-up connecting artists, healers and educators via immersive technology at the AfroPortals Project Space & Archive at Liberation Park in East Oakland and developing a center for the study of radical Black archives.

Come wax poetic for her Birthday and listen in as she shares music and sounds that have and continue to influence her passions and politics across genre and the Afro-Diasporic geography and discography.