For Angel Bat Dawid, music is society, protection, and survival, loyal to itself
“The angel is not necessarily a legendary object: it is a person who brings a message, and this is a large part of the technician,” Angel Pat David Explain in our last interview. As a multi -faceted artist, she believes that her message can focus and treat blacks while helping to unify the masses to better understand society. “This is where I am now with the artistic form and the way I play. All I express, it is especially dedicated to black people, but anyone can join.”
Dawid is a black American composer, improvised, clarinist player, pianist, singer, teacher, and Di who performs with Angel Pat David and Thar Rothahood And Damon locks Black monument group It leads the group of all women Sistazzz of the Nitty Gritty. It also learns children from infants to teenagers, young mentors, and hosts a Monthly display on music On NTS radio.
Her enthusiasm is clear because she is the details of a few of her recent projects for me. On a round in the last February of February, she taught and performed in cities in France, Italy and Spain, and last month, A. 2025 Featist Artists in the United StatesA prize called “Change of Life”. The grant provides $ 50,000 of unrestricted financing for American artists in 10 specialties “paying the borders through specializations, identities and definitions.”
Daid is her artistic practice as part of the wonderful black music rates that she created AacmAllowing it to delve into multiple forms of musical expression. “I call it wonderful black music, and this means that I am a black person, so anything that comes out of me is wonderful, well? The music is less than the type. I can write for the orchestra 100 pieces, and I can also direct a group of people who are not musicians at all and get everything like the Oratorio choir because I know a great composition and improvement.”
Her interest in music began and became an early multi -phase musician. A family trip to the movie theater to see Amadios The spark was presented. “There is a scene there where a young man plays the piano.
Daid’s family moved to Kenya when she was seven years old, and music education shows were limited there. But when they returned to the United States after four years, piano lessons began. In the sixth grade, it was aimed at joining the school orchestra, but when I learned that the violin department was occupied, it was sent to the band’s room. “Mr. Jarrett, the director of the band, gave me the cruenite, and I was disappointed.” “The complete reason for my causes to music, did you want to cut, right?”
Angel Bat Dawid – Photography Joachim Bertand
She grew up in the afternoon before YouTube, she visited the library in search of cruente music, but nothing talked about her small sensitivities. She recalls, “The only music that I saw is from this wheat, white, elegant (Benny Godman), and I like 12, I try to be great.” However, inspiration was found again in Mozart’s music. “I have seen, oh, Mozart, Clainet Concerto – I know that Mozart is torn. This is the first time that I heard the crinate, and the atmosphere was so cold that I was obsessed. I was listening to it when I went to bed; I was listening to it in the morning.”
In classic piano and chlinet studies, it was often the only music for colors. Of course, it struggled with isolation and lack of support. “The more I go, the more I see people like me, and the more black girl in the symphony band, and they put me in less chairs. Feel Which – which. He has always been something in classic music, being the clarinist, being a black crinite woman. It was just a reduction in my clarity and how I felt as my music. In my early twenties, it was a struggle to find out. I specialized in the performance of the cruenite, and I did not get any support because it was mostly a white school, and I was only fighting all these things. “
The stereotypes that I faced naturally affected the years, and they realize the weight of what it takes to reach where it is today. “When most people meet me, the first thing they say is” Oh, do you sing? “This is a very sexual bias, and it is racist He can Sing. But even in this last round), I went to the clarinett, I reached the keys, while I was on the electronics, and the first thing someone comes to me to say, “Can I touch (your hair)?” The battle of all of this as my music, it affects you. “
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Its headquarters in Chicago, Daid says that the city encourages creativity, cooperation and experimentation that it seeks, with fewer arbitrary barriers among artists in different stages of their career. “You have been recruited anywhere else. Chicago is a very cooperative city. Oh, do you want to come in my group? “” “
Dawid says this feeling of society is unique for Chicago, and musicians of colors have a strong network of mutual support. ))
Structural racism is always present, and does not offer any apology if some people are uncomfortable to naming it. An additional reason to create safe and comprehensive spaces for black musicians. “I will play with any race. We can all play music together, glory to God, and stem liquid, we are the world! But when it comes to it for me Work now as an artist, I very Those interested in investigating what will seem to be for black artists to be able to perform without facing all these (regular) problems – creating spaces for black artists to create them, because if you are going to play my music, then you will certainly protect me before me. “
Angel Bat Dawid – Photography by Pascal Gambarte
Dawid works to stay for a year specifically for black women in Black roomCreative cooperative space and studio for Bipoc artists located in the West Garfield Park neighborhood in Chicago. The intuitive experiences that black women are culturally shared by their peace and support. “Some are not things that we can even determine, but we feel it. If women are not hate, this tells us that we are very aggressive, or stickers are placed on black women when we talk about ourselves.”
Be honest on its principles has prompted Dawid’s success over the past ten years. She acknowledges that others may not enjoy this privilege, but for her, speaking frankly is how to maintain its creative reality. “I do not care to be this person; some people may have more at stake, so I will say the elephant in the room. I have done correctly for me to be an audio and say something uncomfortable, whether musical or technical.”
More than ever, Dawid believes that artists can bridge the gap in an increasingly accurate world. “When artists rise, we are the ones who connect societies. I think we can live in a world where there is no racism or any of these shit. Certainly. This is why I do what I do. I have to show people that we can do that – we should not offer that we have everything in our power. I mean, you are a human being.”
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