This is a matrix in the original sense of "source". It is a "small-world" network, meaning that the nodes (people) inside it are — mirroring human society — within a few steps of everybody else inside it. The matrix was built to allow regional Brazilian musicians to be discoverable steps away from everybody else in the arts world, and by logical necessity this m.o. requires not only that the great Brazilians be matrixed, but so far as possible, all working artists in our time. Ergo:
This Caridad De La Luz matrix node is steps away from the entire planet by the well-known small-world ("6 degrees") phenomenon dictating that in human society you yourself are within several degrees of Caridad De La Luz.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Caridad De La Luz (node) ROUTES CURATING WORLDLINES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
Are these Caridad De La Luz's personal recommendations?
CURATION STATUS
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Who & Where
- Name: Caridad De La Luz
- City/Place: New York City
- Country: United States
- Hometown: South Bronx, New York
Life & Work
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Bio:
Caridad De La Luz is a multi-faceted performer known as“La Bruja”, who recently won the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship 2019-2020. She starred in the hit musicals DANCING IN MY COCKROACH KILLERS and I LIKE IT LIKE THAT.
She is considered one of America’s leading spoken word poets and was named one of the ‘Top 20 Puerto Rican Women Everyone Should Know”.
Caridad was awarded the Puerto Rican Women Legacy Award, The Edgar Allan Poe Award for excellence in writing from The Bronx Historical Society and has been titled a Bronx Living Legend along with a Citation of Merit from the Bronx Borough President.
She was has performed in venues such as The Apollo, Lincoln Center, Gracie Mansion, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, City Hall and in venues internationally.
Since her debut performance in the famed Nuyorican Poets Café in 1996, she continues to host the Monday Night Open Mics entertaining the crowds with her comedic improvisational skills and poetic prowess.
N.Y. Times called her”a Juggernaut”after her original musical Boogie Rican Blvd. where she played 7 different characters.
She was awarded Best Musical for the 2015 production of Betsy where she played the title role. Her acting career has taken her from the stage to film: appearing in numerous movies including Bamboozled, Down to the Bone, El Vacilon and Gun Hill Road. She proudly played an extra in Ava DuVernay’s WHEN THEY SEE US, check in the opening scene of Episode 3 with John Leguizamo.
She crossed over as a recording artist with her albums “Brujalicious” and “For Witch It Stands” both on Spotify and iTunes.
Her poetry is featured on Prince Royce’s album “Phase II” and she is infamous for her piercing performance on Russell Simmons’ HBO Def Poetry Jam.
As a teaching artist, Caridad has worked throughout the country facilitating writing and performance workshops for countless youth and aspiring artists.
She is currently cultivating her own art space in the Soundview area of The Bronx called El Garaje and will soon be traveling the West Coast of Canada, Peru and Africa to visit Indigenous healers and expand her practice.
Contact Information
- Email: caridaddelaluz@gmail.com
Media & Markets
- ▶ Buy My Music (downloads/CDs/DVDs): http://caridaddelaluz.com/index.php/poetry-collection/
- ▶ Book Purchases: http://caridaddelaluz.com/index.php/poetry-collection/
- ▶ Twitter: LaBrujaNYC
- ▶ Instagram: labrujanyc
- ▶ Website: http://caridaddelaluz.com
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://youtube.com/user/caridaddelaluz
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCuMyf_tq_MlMZ8guBcpjosA
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
Poetry / Hip Hop / Comedy / Host / Actor / Teaching Artist / Activist / Mother / Healer / Puerto Rican Powerhouse / Queen of Nuyorico / Bronx Living Legend / La Bruja "is a Juggernaut"
- NY Times
Clips (more may be added)
THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone... The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum...it sings!
Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word
Limned in prosody and cadenced song
brəˈzɪl / from "brasa" / Latin for "ember"
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics/"creative people" are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specializes in.
MUCH MORE on all of this in the window below (which, if you are logged in, will instead contain instructions on recommending), and in the window within that window (which includes a "radio" called by The Guardian one of "10 of the best music radio stations around the world"):
