BigYuki is NYC’s musical secret weapon.
 
Supported by Grammy Award winning drummer Daru Jones (Jack White, Talib Kweli, Kim Burrell, Esperanza Spalding) and emerging guitarist Randy Runyon (The Karma Exchange, Bilal, Jennah Bell), it is hard to believe that music this big is created by a trio.
BigYuki’s extensive vocabulary fuels his ability to create hit sounds, attracting the attention of so many artists including several Grammy Award-winning and nominated personalities including QTip, Bilal, Talib Kweli, Harvey Mason, Marcus Strickland, Mark Giuliana, and Me’Shell Ndegeocello.
 
This is a new sound. Infusing elements of Jazz, Classical, HipHop, Soul, Rock, Dance, and Electronica into his compositions, BigYuki’s highly-anticipated debut EP promises to be a blood-pumping excursion into the infinite soundscapes of this virtuosic mind.
 
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A classically trained vocal veteran, Bilal released his debut album 1st Born Second in 2001, which boasted the popular single “Soul Sista.” The follow-up, Love for Sale (2006), was shelved but leaked entirely online yet was well received to fans and music critics and has become an underground classic. In the following years, Bilal has collaborated and performed with some of the industry’s most prominent artists including, Beyonce (Fighting Temptations), Common (Like Water for Chocolate, Electric Circus, Be, Finding Forever), Jay-Z (American Gangster), Erykah Badu (New Amerykah Part One, New Amerykah Part Two), Robert Glasper (All Matter), Boney James (Better With Time), Musiq (Soulstar) and The Roots among others. He also covered Radiohead’s “High & Dry” for the 2006 Radiohead tribute, Exit Music: Songs With Radio Heads. Bilal also appears in Dave Chappelle’s Block Party.

L.A.-based award-winning singer Dessy Di Lauro delivers a unique flavor of original music she describes as ”Feathered Frohawk Futuristic Art Deco Centric Harlem Renaissance Hep Music” with a live show incorporating elements from the ”Speak Easy Era” with an added contemporary urban edge. This past New Year’s Eve, Dessy Di Lauro introduced her production show, The Jamboree, at the Rose. Rabbit. Lie modern ballroom in The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas with a cast of over 20 performers, to rave reviews.
 
“Creating a sound inspired by jazz pioneers, Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway, Di Lauro uses the musical language of the Harlem Renaissance era fused with today’s urban beats, contemporary sounds and catchy R&B hooks.” – FUSICOLOGY.COM
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iLLspokinn has been one of New York’s hip-hop cornerstones for over a decade through both his contributions to the scene and his scene-stealing performances. In addition to rocking the stage, iLL has made a reputation setting it for a number of successful and well-received events. He co-founded and co-hosts Freestyle Mondays, the longest running freestyle hip-hop open mic in New York City, now entering its eleventh year with recent international incarnations launched in Prague and France. iLL has also, alongside Tru Statement Entertainment, been the driving force behind the live Props to Hip-Hop concert series, a rap tribute multi-artist performance that’s quickly become one of Manhattan’s most buzzed about hip-hop events.
 
This year, iLL expanded into the boardroom as the co-founder, Vice President and Manager of the independent multimedia production company Rae Maxwell Inc.
 
When considering iLL has also had a #1 iTunes single, a chart-topping song in Spain, an album released as part of Rawkus Records’ Rawkus 50, a starring role in promotional spots for MTV, collaborations with Sadat X of Brand Nubian and most recently a series of successful international DJ tours (DJ VYNiLLspokinn), it’s proof he’s a success on both sides of the spotlight.
 
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