2011 Apollo Artists Karma Mayet
Karma Mayet
Apollo Music Cafe, March 4, 2011. Karma Mayet’s recent stage appearances include the Off-Broadway production of Fela! directed by Bill T. Jones and the premiere of Keith+Mendi Obadike’s Four Electric Ghosts at The Kitchen as well as the 2010 Women in Jazz series at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
She is composer/director of the innovative blues opera, Indigo. Of Indigo’s 2007 Capitol Fringe Festival premiere, one reviewer writes: "This show has more soul than James Brown passing the peace pipe with Malcolm X." Also in 2007, Karma Mayet joined the cast of Bernice Johnson Reagon and Robert Wilson’s The Temptation of St. Anthony in Milan and at the Melbourne International Arts Festival in Australia.
Karma’s solo vocal performance was broadcast as part of MTV’s Celebrate Black History programming for 2008 and 2009. She is a lead vocalist on the album The Mercy Suite, a collaboration between poet Yusef Komunyakaa and composer Tomas Doncker, and a frequent marauder amongst Burnt Sugar, the Arkestra Chamber, having just completed a stint in France for the band’s collaboration with Melvin Van Peebles. Collaborators have included filmmaker Michelle Parkerson, composer/bassist Meshell Ndegeocello, performance artist Lil MonstaH (Black), and the late guerilla theater innovator Rebecca Rice of D.C.’s Living Stage Theater Company.