IN PICS: Teshay Makeda @ Brixton Jamm 15/09

Teshay Makeda (pronounced Tash-Eye Ma-Keeda) fuses Reggae, Soul and RnB to create her own dynamic genre dubbed 'Roots Soul'. Raised in South London, and influenced by her Rastafarian upbringing, Teshay Makeda uses her music to spread messages of divinity and higher power.

Check out our highlights below!

Photos by Silvia

We managed to catch a few mins with Teshay after her set:

Tell us more about the inspiration behind your work and last album? “Omega Mother Goddess was really for me to allow myself to create was was coming through me. Not necessarily write the songs that other people wanted me to sing just really my authentic truth at the time. So yeah honouring the masculine and feminine principles in myself, in God and my life experiences just allowing it to create a piece that I could tap into if I wanted to access my own healing. As I’ve journeyed with it and started performing it more it really rings that for me.”

We’ve been running a campaign ‘Where Are The Women Headliners?’ mainly focusing on the inequality that we see during the festival season. We’d like to know if this is something that you think is important and any experience that come to mind? “Yeah I think it’s really important to be seen as a woman, as an artist and this is why for my show at every single part of who was front facing was all feminine black women. Yeah so we had that ceremony to like bring that together and I think it’s important because we make up most of the population of this world and why are we not being seen. So it’s important to just show truth, it shouldn’t be representation it just is. It’s reality their are women that exist on this planet so therefore we show be being celebrated.” Silvia “We powerful right?” Teshay “Exactly”. Silvia “I agree with you”.

If you could name 3 female artists to headline a show who would you pick? “Summer Pearl, Teshay Makeda and Cleo Sol.”

You’ve just done an amazing show, what’s next for you? “I am going to be getting back into the studio. I wanna be writing and yeah just get back into myself and really just blending the sound healing and the music into one thing. This is what this event is about to really solidify that music is healing”