Choppa Kitty is a jazz pianist that was born and raised in the East Bay area (Oakland/Berkeley) surrounded by musicians and artists. Not only within her immediate family, but also within everyday interactions from surrounding influential places, and people. 
After Choppa's uncle renowned jazz drummer Gaylord Birch passed away choppa would put down the sheet music and start focusing on the Business side of music.  Choppa opened "Ocean Beach Studios" in the sunset district of San Francisco at age 24. She reached out to highschool musician friends to help run the studio, later sold her part to the remaining two friends still invested in the studio. After a few other business endeavors, and traveling the country, Choppa Kitty would finally pick up music once again. She composed, wrote and recorded her first own classical piece on the piano after a 17 year hiatus. She started a blues jazz band where she mainly sings in called "External Thoughts" found here on SoundCloud. she started the band with high school friend Brian Whipp (lead singer and guitarist from bear with a car on top) in long beach CA. She did all this while learning to mix and record beat tracks living in her car durring covid 19. Now Choppa Kitty focuses on infusing her background of jazz piano into hip hop, trap and lofi beats. Heard here on SoundCloud and you can find her on bandlab at https://www.bandlab.com/choppakitty_
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Climbing PoeTree harnesses creativity as the antidote to destruction through their award-winning poetry, boundary-breaking music, and multimedia hip hop. Co-creators Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman have independently organized more than 30 national and international tours, taking their work from South Africa to Cuba, the UK to Mexico, and throughout the U.S. including 11,000 miles toured on a bus converted to run on recycled vegetable oil.

Climbing PoeTree has stirred crowds at diverse venues from the Brooklyn Academy of Music to the United Nations, Harvard University to Rikers Island Prison. They have been featured alongside powerhouses such as Alicia Keys, Erykah Badu, Little Dragon, Talib Kweli, Goapele, Rising Appalachia, T.I., Dead Prez, and Angela Davis, who writes:

"Each time I have the pleasure of attending a performance by Climbing PoeTree, I feel
enriched, renewed, and inspired. Alixa and Naima insist that poetry can change the world—and it is true that the urgency, power and beauty of their words impel us to keep striving for the radical futures toward which they gesture."

Blues, jazz, punk? Often improv when live.... who knows what this musical duo will do. They come up with their songs on the fly by asking their audience for only one word to create the beautiful sounds that can only come from these to Pals. Sad, happy in-between.... you literally name it! 
don't think they can only do whatever the hell the audience wants, no no, these two also have written songs!!! 
Hope you enjoy the unknown that is, and if you don't like it then write a suggestion of just one word and see if External Thoughts can wow you (unlike your prom date). 



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