Amyra
AMYRA is a musician, author, director, & activist.
Her work transcends genre and medium focusing on Black liberation, politics, and communal healing. Her aim is to empower communities to believe in the significance of their individual stories.
2020 was a huge year of releases for Amyra resulting in the arrival of her debut album WITNESS, the PBS American Masters: In the Making documentary featuring Amyra’s life and creative process, and her first two books - Concrete Kids (Penguin Random House) and Freedom, We Sing (Flying Eye Books) hit shelves to great acclaim throughout the United States and United Kingdom.
Amyra composed Una Mujer Derramada in collaboration with Sivan Eldar commissioned by and performed with Lisbon's Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Montpellier National Opera, and the Paris Chamber Orchestra. Amyra was honored to perform the composition as the sole vocalist with all three orchestras. She is the inaugural recipient of the Battersea Arts Centre Phoenix Award which led to the 2019 London premiere of her debut play VASELINE, co-commissioned by Arts Council England.
Amyra currently splits her time between New York and London.