Kazemde George (KG,B) and Sami Stevens have been making music together since they met in 2012 while studying Jazz at the New England Conservatory in Boston, MA. Since then, the duo has expanded their efforts to include RnB, Soul, Beats, and Bossa Nova with projects like Sami Stevens & the Man I Love and The Parkside Jazz Sessions. Make Your Mind is the pair's first collaborative release under Kaz's beat-making moniker KG,B. It's an after-hours effort, informed by Sami and Kaz's diverse musical interests and tastes, and it's made with love. Sami Stevens NYC Vocalist Sami Stevens combines Soul, Jazz, Experimental and RnB sensibilities to forge a truly unique voice in original music. A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, Sami has performed with world renowned jazz pianist Jason Moran and 6-time Grammy nominee Fred Hersch, recorded with "King of Treme" Shannon Powell and underground legend Gary Wilson, and opened for Grammy nominated folk singer Greg Brown and Black Star MC Talib Kweli. Sami has toured the US and Europe with various projects, appearing at NYC venues like the Cutting Room, Brooklyn Bowl, and National Sawdust. She has led the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra, performed numerous times in Boston's Jordan Hall, and sung the national anthem in Fenway Park at age 16. Additionally, Sami acts as lead vocalist for the widely celebrated faux Italian 70’s soundtrack band Tredici Bacci. Sami's latest project is The Man I Love, started in the summer of 2015. Incorporating classic Soul, RnB, Jazz, and Singer-Songwriter lyricism, Sami Stevens and The Man I Love just released their first record, And I'm Right, on vinyl with Leesta Vall Records in September of 2017. Sami has studied privately with Dominique Eade, Kate McGarry, John McNeil, and Jeanie Lovetri. She graduated from the New England Conservatory of music with a BM in Vocal Jazz Performance and from Tufts University with a BA in Psychology in the fall of 2014. Sami grew up in East Winthrop, Maine, and is currently living in Brooklyn, NY. KG,B Kazemde George is an African American Jazz saxophonist, composer, and beat-maker, raised by Caribbean parents in Berkeley, California. He lives in Brooklyn, and performs and teaches around New York City. During his childhood, he was exposed to a wide range of musical styles, and has been playing Piano, Saxophone, and Percussion from an early age. Kazemde developed a passion for Jazz as he began to recognize it as one of the most impressive and powerful cultural heritages in the US. He also makes electronic music under the moniker “KG,B”. KG,B’s beats are inspired by producers such as J Dilla, Madlib, and Flying Lotus, who he sees as modern the counterparts of early Jazz innovators. Since traveling to Cuba in 2012, Kazemde has expanded his focus from Hip-Hop and Jazz to the full spectrum of musical styles which blossomed from the African Diaspora, including Afro-Cuban, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Brazilian, and African-American styles. As he sees it, the study of these musical styles serves as a way to regain cultural histories that where lost through the processes of African-American Slavery. Kazemde is a biologist at heart, and his quest to understand this wide breadth of styles is driven by an analytical mind with a scientific approach. Kazemde received his bachelors degree in Neurobiology from Harvard University, but today has aligned his focus on music. Kazemde started playing the Saxophone at the age of 10, and at 12 he began learning the Jazz oral tradition under the tutelage of Khalil Shaheed, Charles McNeal and Susan Muscarella. In 2007, Kazemde moved to Boston to attend school, and in 2014, Kazemde completed the Harvard/New England Conservatory (NEC) Joint program, receiving his Bachelors in Neurobiology (Harvard) and his Masters in Jazz Composition (NEC). While studying at NEC, Kazemde studied privately with Jerry Bergonzi, Cecil McBee, Donny McCaslin, John McNeil, Jason Moran, Danilo Pérez, and Miguel Zenón. During vacations from school, Kazemde organized and performed in youth Jazz showcases at Yoshi’s Jazz Club in 2009 and 2011. In 2012, received Harvard’s George Peabody Gardener Fellowship to study music in La Habana, Cuba for ten months. The purpose of the trip was to study Afro-Cuban percussion, and to experience the social and political climate in the Communist dictatorship first-hand. Kazemde has performed with Solange Knowles, Saint Heron, David Murray, Roman Filiu, and Jason Moran, at venues and festivals such as, Dizzy's Coca-Cola Club, Zinc Bar, The Bitter End, Irving Plaza, Yoshi's, Black Cat, Cafe Stritch, The David Rubinstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Panama Jazz Festival, Made In America Festival, AfroPunk, and Panorama NYC Music Festival. Credits Pentagonal Penthouse- Music and Lyrics by Kazemde George Greenwood Cemetery and Make Your Mind- Music by Kazemde George and Sami Stevens, Lyrics by Sami Stevens All songs recorded, mixed and mastered by Kazemde George in Brooklyn, NY. © 2017 Sami Stevens and Kazemde George. Album Art by Sami Stevens. www.kazemdegeorge.com www.samistevensvoice.com