Join me for a timely conversation with composer, pianist, vocalist, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist, Samora Pinderhughes. We chat about the complex role of artists within society, navigating institutions as an artist, and how his organization, The Healing Project, exemplifies working at the nexus of art and activism.
This week I'm joined by Samora Pinderhughes, a composer, pianist, vocalist, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist known for striking intimacy and carefully crafted, radically honest lyrics alongside high-level musicianship. The New York Times describes Samora as “one of the most affecting singer-songwriters today, in any genre” that “turn(s) the experience of living in community inside-out, revealing all its personal detail and tension, and giving voice to registers of pain that are commonly shared but not often articulated.”
Samora has collaborated with artists across boundaries and scenes including Common, Herbie Hancock, Glenn Ligon, Sara Bareilles, Robert Glasper, Simone Leigh, Daveed Diggs, Kyle Abraham, Titus Kaphar, and Lalah Hathaway, to name a few. He has been mentored by Anna Deavere Smith, Vijay Iyer, Jason Moran, and others.
Samora is also the creator and executive & artistic director of The Healing Project, a growing arts organization that orients around the question: What if we built our world around healing?
Follow Samora on Instagram at @samorapinderhughes
Follow The Healing Project on Instagram at @healingprojectsound
Listen and buy Samora's album, Venus Smiles Not in the House of Tears on Bandcamp
Click here to listen to Am I Human? and to get involved with the #EndTheException campaign.