Holy & Alive is a celebration of life and the tension of survival. I want this to serve as a reminder, a hymn, something to say to yourself, your kin, to strangers, in a moment of praise, in a moment of despair - HOLY AND ALIVE I AM, HOLY AND ALIVE YOU ARE! As you are, as you arrived, as you become, as you depart, in all forms you are divine. It is no small feat that you are still here. So, this is a mantra for you and for myself -  may we allow ourselves to take up space, to disappear, to grow and fall apart. This too is an invitation to dream, to know that your imagination is worthy of exploration and tending. May we build community that is rooted in more than shared vices, one that is keen to witness the gravity and beauty of what it means to be alive in all of its intricacy. 

Holy & Alive Lyric Video, to be released in the coming weeks.

This is a visual collage of protests that Amyra organized/attended throughout 2020, 1960’s headlines, Amyra’s MRI Brain scans, Barbados, and excerpts of the live performance in which Holy & Alive was first improvised! This is a simple invitation into the beauty and tension that exists in all things that highlights the cycles we often find ourselves in as individuals and as a society.

BIO

AMYRA is a musician, author, director and Harlem native, seamlessly transcending genre and medium. A creative force with an unmatched range and ever poetic lyricism, her power behind the mic is undeniable. Her work, often autobiographical, tends to generational trauma, Black liberation and communal healing. In honoring the intricate terror and wonder of her own history, she invites us to reckon with our own.

Celebrated in the NAACP Image Award nominated series PBS: American Masters In the Making, Strange Grace: The Life and Art of Amyra León is an intimate portrait of her remarkable journey of becoming. It is one of few places where León’s dynamic artistry is presented in one place.  

Amyra's debut album WITNESS is available on all streaming platforms & her critically acclaimed books - Freedom, We Sing [Flying Eye Books 2020] and Concrete Kids [Penguin Random House 2020] are available wherever books are sold. Her third book, Darling, will be published with Candlewick in 2022. 

Amyra composed Una Mujer Derramada in collaboration with Sivan Eldar commissioned by and performed with Lisbon's Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Montpellier National Opera, and the Paris Chamber Orchestra. Amyra was honored to perform the composition as the sole vocalist with all three orchestras. Her latest composition and short film MANA SKY, was commissioned by National Sawdust and premiered on PBS.

She is the inaugural recipient of the Battersea Arts Centre Phoenix Award which led to the 2019 London premiere of her debut play VASELINE, co-commissioned by Arts Council England. VASELINE will return to the stage in 2023. 

DEBUT ALBUM

CONTACT

PRESS

Carrie Tolles carrietolles@gmail.com

WRITING/FILM/TV AGENTS

Katherine Latshaw klatshaw@foliolit.com & Erin Harris eharris@foliolit.com at Folio Literary Management.

ALL OTHER INQUIRIES

amyrainquiries@gmail.com