Aja Monet

Aja Monet is a visionary poet, writer, and activist whose jazz-rooted recordings -- as both a headliner and in-demand collaborator -- center themes of Blackness, feminism, liberation, and social justice. The Brooklyn-raised, Los Angeles-based artist was a Nuyorican Poets Café Grand Slam winner and an NAACP Image Award-nominated writer by the time she made her full-length debut on the Drink Sum Wtr label with When the Poems What They Do (2023), a Grammy-nominated album she produced with Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah. Three years later, she issued her follow-up, The Color of Rain (20...