www.navashadaya.com
Navasha
Daya
She has shared the stage with legendary greats such as Chaka Khan, Hugh Masekela, Roberta Flack, Frankie Beverly & Maze, Confunkshun, Chuck Brown, Earl Klugh, Joan Baes and more. Kidjo, Rachelle Farrell, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, India.Arie, Bilal, Commom, Zap Mama, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Anthony Hamilton, and Cassandra Wilson to name a few.
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NAVASHA DAYA is a singer, songwriter, composer, producer, and performer extraordinaire. She lights up the stage with her energy and continues to amaze with her vocal range. For over a decade,
NAVASHA served as lead vocalist, songwriter and co- founder of the highly acclaimed soul, funk, jazz band, Fertile Ground and has been dubbed one of the foremothers of the underground/ indie soul movement.
As a songwriter, Navasha Daya’s compositions have been remixed by the world’s top DJs and producers and have been released as recordings.
A Baltimore transplant by way of Cleveland, OH Navasha is also a performance arts curator, certified healer, and spiritual and cultural arts activist who, with her husband Fanon Hill and two youth mentees, she co-founded the Youth Resiliency Institute (YRI).
Continuing the legacy of her cousin the late great Gil Scott Heron, and embodying the influences of the likes of Manu Dibango, Miriam Makeba, Bob Marley, and Phyllis Hyman, her dynamic live show fuses Fertile Ground classics along with new compositions she has composed including songs from her debut solo EP “Rebirthed Above Ground”.