I love this photo because it is from the day I met okanomodé! That's actually me back there playing the violin, and Ahamefule J. Oluo shaking his hand on the left (Aham is also playing in the opera). We did a piece okanomodé developed called "Luci's Lamb" about Lucifer and Jesus, with okanomodé playing Lucifer. What an amazing performing artist and creative visionary - I've always wanted to do another project together. Okanomodé's character in our opera is Asu Shu Namir, a supernatural intersex being who is implored by a desperate humankind to save them from their terrible fate. Recently, okanomodé and Aham produced an amazing comedy/pop opera called Now I'm Fine at On The Boards. Okanomodé has appeared with the Seattle Rock Orchestra numerous times. Here is how he describes himself: okanomodé [pronounced: uh-kahn-uh-mah-day] noun 1. performance artist 2. expressionist 3. composer 4. poet 5. dancer 6. master of arts 7. shape-shifter 8. ninja 9. high priest 10. soulchilde okanomodé is a performance artist of the highest order. A renaissance. An exhibition. The glamazon warrior born of grit, gut, & holypaganfire. He’s the grandson of a pastor & protégé of afronauts, poets, sex therapists & porn stars. He is the postsoul postpunk sissyfunk genderfuck afronotic kinkazoid an electro.chamber.pop.cabaret & he has come, with a host of others to shake & stir u from your sleep… ***** Here's a track from his new album Now I'm Fine: that's also Evan Flory-Barnes on the bass - he plays in the opera, too... See more about his work here.
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