New Music

Beauty In Bloom

Black Is Beautiful Experience

featuring Brandee Younger

Two new compositions inspired by the photography and vision of Kwame Brathwaite.

Arriving exclusively on Bandcamp early August 2026

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The Black Is Beautiful Experience brings together music, archive, poetry, and community inspired by the legacy of Kwame Brathwaite and the Black Is Beautiful movement.

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Beauty In Bloom

Black is Beautiful Experience

featuring Brandee Younger

Arriving exclusively on bandcamp early august 2026

About the Music

New music inspired by a legacy of beauty and self-definition.

Beauty In Bloom and Radiance were created by Brandee Younger in response to the photographs and cultural vision of Kwame Brathwaite.

Drawing inspiration from the Grandassa Models and the Black Is Beautiful movement, the music reflects themes of beauty, identity, and self determination. Through sound, the compositions honor a vision that transformed how Black people saw themselves and how they wished to be seen by the world.

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“I am the personification of a phenomenal people whose beauty and strength is ancient and yet so very current.”

– SIKOLO BRATHWAITE
I Am a Grandassa Model

About Brandee Younger

Grammy-nominated harpist, composer, and NAACP Image Award-winning artist Brandee Younger has become one of the defining voices of her generation, creating music that bridges spiritual jazz, classical training, R&B, and hip-hop.

Continuing her collaboration with the Black Is Beautiful Experience, Younger serves as composer and harpist on Beauty In Bloom and Radiance, two new works inspired by the imagery and cultural legacy of Kwame Brathwaite.

Drawing from a lineage shaped by Alice Coltrane and Dorothy Ashby, Younger continues to expand the harp’s role within contemporary music while honoring the spirit of the Black Is Beautiful movement through themes of beauty, self-definition, and cultural memory.

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The Images That Inspired the Music

The Grandassa Models

The Grandassa Models were more than subjects in photographs. They were pioneers of a cultural movement that championed natural Black beauty, self-definition, and pride.

Their influence continues to shape artists, musicians, photographers, and new generations around the world.

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Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story

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About Black Is Beautiful Experience

A multi-artist, multi-disciplinary project rooted in image, sound and history.

Black Is Beautiful Experience is a curated multi-artist project created by Rhymshot in collaboration with the Kwame Brathwaite Archive.

Through sound and vision The Black Is Beautiful Experience, reimagines the1960s Harlem movement for the next generation.

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