It is a cup of roots, a tablespoon of rock a teaspoon of jazz, with a pinch of hip hop, the sound is new, and the connotations are ancient. The main ingredients in the music is the Congo drum and vocals giving it a poetic flair.
Blak Kla Soyl on Vocals and Percussions...Lion Empress on Steelpan, Andre Donawa on Bass, and Jamal Brown on traps. Blak Kla' Soyl is the sound of her project. She considers herself an ancient modern, and her sound will take you back and send you to the future. As a performing artist, she launched her first sound, Earth Roots Jazz in Barbados, with her father, drum icon El Verno Del Congo and guitar. Her love is Music Fashion and Theater. What better way to do all, through performing. She played her drum in Germany, Jamaica, St Lucia and keep performing as solo Artist in Ghana Africa, Jamaica and Bermuda. Music is her first love, and her main influence are the drum and the lifestyles of other people, she also admires Nina Simone, Prince and Sting.
Blak Kla Soyl composes and produces music. In 2004, she produced and recorded her debut album entitled Blak Kla Soyl the Chromatical. She toured in Bermuda, Jamaica, St Lucia and Germany to promote the album. In 2006 she took a spiritual break to take care of her father while she pursued her quest and acquired the secrets of drumming.
When she returned to the performing scene two years later, Blak Kla Soyl released two singles entitled a Real Mama's Boy and Women Celebrate. She received great recognition and was nominated at the Barbados Music Award 2009 she will vie for the title again in 2010 for Best Jazz Artist.