Natasha Agrama
Natasha Agrama is a Hollywood born musician, artist, educator, and community organizer. Born in Hollywood to a family of artists. Her grandfather was the great Antonio Prieto, the Chilean crooner, her parents are both artists, and her stepfather is jazz legend Stanley Clarke.
She started singing at a young age, started studying vocal technique with Seth Riggs at age 12, and spent her adolescence performing and making art, developing herself as a performer and visual artist. She later went on to study fine art formally for 5 years at various art schools, culminating in her BFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute, where she specialized in drawing, painting, sculpture, audio/video, performance, installation, and community organizing. She was the recipient of a $10,000 grant to start an art camp for kids living in the William Nickerson Gardens housing project in Watts. After moving back to Los Angeles, Natasha began working for her stepfather, and helped him launch a record label, before deciding to make music her main focus again. She moved to France and began training with a private jazz tutor and sitting in at jazz clubs in Paris. When she moved back to Los Angeles, again, she began working on what is now her first official record. Natasha went back to school to study music, and began writing and collaborating in and around LA. Specializing in jazz, Natasha made a name for her self in the music community, as well as the songwriting community in LA.
Natasha has worked and played with some of the greatest Jazz musicians in the world, some of them which are Stanley Clarke, Austin Peralta, George Duke, Stephen Thundercat Bruner, Ronald Bruner Jr., Kamashi Washington, Vinnie Colaiuta, Miles Mosley & Ruslan Sirota, just to name a few.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Agrama, Natasha"About Natasha Agrama"
- ↑ Indie U "Natasha F Agrama Talks Finding Art in Music and Life"