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Ubaka Hill
Ubaka Hill is a native New Yorker, percussionist, vocalist, songwriter, poet, and teacher. An inspiration to many people internationally over the 25 years of her professional career, she is also recognized as a motivational speaker, visionary, and mentor.
Founder and director of the Drumsong Institute Museum Archive and Library of Women’s Drumming Traditions of North America located in Catskill, New York, Hill is the founder and musical director of both ShapeShifters, a professional performance ensemble, and the Drumsong Orchestra, a national, multicultural, diverse ensemble of mostly female drummers and percussionists of all ages, experience, and skill levels. She is also the cofounder and coproducer of the annual Catskill Women’s World Drum & Percussion Happen’n.
Hill loves to teach, making learning the art of drumming accessible to all who want to explore the drums’ voices. She has the ability to integrate all skill levels and various drums, creating exciting, healing, and rejuvenating music. Her workshops have also included deaf/hard-of-hearing women and at-risk youth.
Hill’s musical style does not fit into a singular form but embraces many styles to create authentic, melodic, and rhythmic musical forms, from sacred to secular and ancient to contemporary. Her music moves and reflects our expanding traditions, beliefs, and changing times, and her instruments include the Djembe, Ube, Conga, and Ashiko drums, didgeridoo, singing bowl, Udu, small percussion, various instruments of Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, and vocals in song and spoken word. Hill’s third recording, Beyond the Wind, was released on her label, Splevine Music Network. She also has two other CDs available, ShapeShifters and Dance the Spiral Dance.
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