AGAAMA is an Artist, Composer, Singer-songwriter, and Producer. Making brooding yet hopeful pop songs in amongst dark bass lines and heavy beats, accompanied by electronically warped horn arrangements. Listeners enter a world that is both calm and chaotic, familiar, and unknown.
AGAAMA grew up in Birmingham UK in a British-Jamaican household with eclectic musical tastes. Her imagination was first captured by her Dads contemporary classical vinyl collection and her mother's love of Sarah Vaughan and Quincy Jones. She took singing lessons as a child at a theatre school in Birmingham, finding a space to channel her hyperactivity.
Music continued to be an outlet. She studied classical trombone as a teenager, spending her weekends raving to UK bass music, following inner-city sound systems, in the middle of the mosh pit at metal gigs and then singing in church on Sundays. From her teens, she was exploring music production and fronting metal bands, inspired by the performances of theatrical front women like Stevie Nicks, Kate Bush and Big Mama Thornton. A gifted performer, AGAAMA recently performed music from ‘Wandering Worlds: Volume 1’ with BBC Symphony Orchestra, collaborating with Musical Director Jules Buckley for Inside Classical.
