Myah Rose Paden

by Myah Rose Paden More than a musician— Johnaye Kendrick is an alchemist of sound, transmuting music into a vehicle for joy, empowerment, inspiration, and healing.  Johnaye Kendrick A mother of twins and an exemplar multihyphenate, Kendrick wears many fabulous hats, from her early accolades as a student at Western Michigan University and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz to her solo career by which she showcases her consummate musicianship as an artist, composer, producer, and arranger...

By Myah Rose Paden The curtains open on Seattle Opera’s 2024-2025 season with the highly anticipated world premiere of Jubilee  – a celebration of the enduring legacy of African American spirituals, the labor to preserve historical Black art forms, and the conservators responsible for that preservation. Jubilee is an operatic adaptation of the 2019 a capella musical of the same name, created and directed by the original playwright Tazewell Thompson, with vocal arrangements by Dianne Adams...