NGINAFAYOLA MUST BE HEARD!!!!

Ngina Fayola is a singer/songwriter, born in Georgetown, Guyana. She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio with her parents and two sisters. Ngina Fayola’s father, Jojo Kofi Badu, was one of the founding members of the international world music band, The Yoruba Singers; he became her direct influence into her craft. She started as a poet in Cleveland, Ohio then ventured into singing songs with her guitar at local open mic nights. At the end of 2007, she moved to Lakewood with her two children, and starting making her own beats and producing songs.

“It was always in me to do my own thing…I didn’t feel that people had the same vein that I did for this (music). I wanted to do my own music”.

Since 2004 Fayola has written, arranged, produced and directed four albums: nginafayola (the birth of), observationz, Anomaly, and Ladybugs in my Lamp. Each beat was arranged and created by Ngina Fayola; each album reflects a point of change and growth within Fayola’s personal. Fayola also produced A Spoken Word Project: for the People for Kisha Nicole Foster (Gneous Music) in 2008. In 2008, she was on the Kings vs Queens on the Iron Mic (Grog Shop) and she was in the Battle of the Beats (Symposium). In 2009, she was featured in the Cleveland Scene magazine for her performance in the Queens on the Iron Mic Show. She has worked with such artists as Eriq Troi, PhatBurner, Elemental Hard Groove, and Joe Byrd. She has toured with RepLife, a jazz/spoken word duo, which consists of Mark Matthews (D.J) and Daniel Gray-Kontar, in Ohio and Pittsburgh. She has also featured at The Earth Nightclub (Cleveland, Ohio); The Underground (Cleveland, Ohio), and the legendary Grog Shop (Cleveland, Ohio). Fayola performs live acoustically or with a four-man band and back-up singers.

“Audiences are so shallow…when they like you doing that one thing, they love you. They dislike you if you stray…I want people to give my music a chance, not because it makes sense or they feel instructed…but because it feels good”.

Simplicity describes the Ngina Fayola Experience. Fluid emotions are secure inside solid beats. Ngina Fayola’s voice, being of survival and awareness, is one that is hypnotizing. The sound holds the listeners ear, and commands the soul to calm down, a reassurance that things will be just fine. This definitive style is one that is imperative within the movement of music progressing people. In her songs she questions, initiates and shares in detailed sequences; each one balanced with genuine concern for the aesthetic of music. Her music is an art and she composes songs for the sake of this art; in hopes that it reaches internationally…that her birthplace of Georgetown will serenade her home with her lyrics. Ngina Fayola is a flame that others flock towards, drawn to raspy undertones within a strong lilt. Her musical range taps into Rock and Soul, Hip-Hop, Jazz and Eclectic Abstract. The Ngina Fayola Experience electrifies one individual at a time, leaving each with simply dope music – smiling from ear to ear.