Photo: Anthony Josey (Genius World Photos)
Indie Music Women’s Featured Artist of the Day is…
IMANI (@imvni.music)
Photo credit: Anthony Josey (@geniusworldphotos)
IMANI is a genre-bending artist born on an unknown planet, Planet X. Her style is a fusion of experimental R&B, Deep House, Jazz, and EDM with a sad edge. Her family left planet X in the 90s and moved to Louisiana.
Her love for southern Hip Hop influences her sound with heavy bass and robust drums. IMANI’s hypnotizing vocal style ranges from soft and angelic to gritty and diabolical. She credits her lively stage presence, which includes vignettes of inspiration, to being brought up in a small southern church.
On her upcoming album, “YEAR 3076”, IMANI travels to the future where she explores love, loss, and heartbreak all while fighting for her DREAMS against the evil Dreamons.
– Bio courtesy of IMANI
IMANI shared what it means to her to be an indie music woman artist,
“Being an indie music woman artist means I have creative control of my art and agency over my expression. Through telling my life story I am able to amplify the voices of so many black women and black little girls who would otherwise feel unheard and neglected. Music spoke for me when I felt voiceless and misunderstood. I am honored to be able to give back what was given to me.”
You can hear IMANI’s song, “Rollin’ ” on the Indie Music Women’s Spotify Playlist.