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Monique DeBose

Monique DeBose is an award-winning singer, activist and playwright. A leading vocal improvisationalist (having studied under Rhiannon and Joey Blake of the renowned Bobby McFerrin Voicestra), Monique has toured and entertained audiences throughout Europe, India and Asia, with the mission of helping people of all ages and cultures to transition beyond seeing in just “black” and “white” to seeing in full color.

On August 28 2020, the date of so many pivotal moments in the civil rights movement, including the anniversary of Martin Luther-King’s “I have a Dream” speech, she released the powerful anthem Rally Call. The song is a call for liberation, an anthem for the disenfranchised. The chorus calls out to “get rid of those papers,” a reference to a time in history when black people were unable to go out in public on their own without papers that demonstrated who they “belonged” to.

Inspired by her experience of what it means to be a black, mixed-race woman (from an African American father from the segregated south and Irish American mother from upstate New York) she wrote the funny, heartwarming and disruptive one-woman show Mulatto Math: Summing Up The Race Equation in America to initiate conversation and help heal race relations in America. After winning the Producer’s Encore Award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival and performing the show throughout the world as a workshop focusing on identity, race and belonging, Monique is currently developing Mulatto Math for original programming.

She calls LA home, is married to a Brit and is raising two compassionate, culturally intelligent boys.

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Monique Debose Will Release The Sovereign One On September 27

Monique Debose Will Release The Sovereign One On September 27

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Monique De Bose has never been one to shy away from life’s challenges. The Sovereign One, which drops on September 27, encapsulates a wealth of experience into seven songs in which the LA-based songwriter and vocalist offers up messages that are both personal and universal, messages of acceptance, of empowerment and of pride. The journey to this time and place—emotionally and stylistically—has been a rather circuitous one. The daughter of a mixed-race couple, Monique realized at a very early age ...

"Monique blurs the borders between soul and jazz, delivering instantly classic sounds that we're digging.” - Soul Tracks chose “Damaged Goods” as a Choice Cut

"A track to focus on the interplay of gracious smokey vocals and melodic tapestries. Simply effecting music." - DJ Rich Chocolate, Soul Salvation Radio Show

"Definitely playing on my show. Great tune" - Hugh Williams, Music with Soul

"Beautiful vocals and nice for a lazy Sunday afternoon." - Hardy Tej of The Music Galaxy Show

"We love the new song by Monique DeBosse - such a great track. We're scheduling it for play on our show Nu-Skool Soul." - Imran, Blue in Green Radio

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Nina Simone
piano and vocals
Sade
vocals

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

The Sovereign One

Self Produced
2018

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Damaged Goods

From: The Sovereign One
By Monique DeBose

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