Las Tesoros de San Antonio

Las Tesoros de San Antonio

Las Tesoros de San Antonio Las Tesoros de San Antonio, a group of elder women performers who teamed up to preserve Mexican and bicultural musical expressions through their singing and storytelling. Through the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in San Antonio, Janet "Perla Tapatia" Cortez (1931-2014), Beatriz "La Paloma del…
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Nicolás Ramiro Valdez

Nicolás Ramiro Valdez

Nicolás Ramiro Valdez Nicolás Ramiro Valdez is a San Antonio, Texas based performance artist with over 15 years experience in cultural arts activism. His introduction to the stage came early. Nicolás was trained in traditional Conjunto music by master accordionist Valerio Longoria Sr. at the age of 9 and by…
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Juan Tejeda

Juan Tejeda

Juan Tejeda Juan Tejeda is a musician, writer, ex-jefe danzante Mexica-Azteca, arts administrator, educator, activist, editor and publisher. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Chicano Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and his Master of Arts degree in Bicultural Studies from the University of Texas at…
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Utako Toyama

Utako Toyama

Utako Toyama Utako Toyama is a multi-award-winning composer, founder of SkyBridge and co-founder of Songs for World Peace. She is also a recipient of an exceptional talent visa in the U.S. and the UK and is currently based in London, UK. Her goal is to use the maximum of her…
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Yoshie Nakayama

Yoshie Nakayama

Yoshie Nakayama Yoshie Nakayama is a composer, arranger, trombone player, singer as well as educator, based in Boston. People recognize her warm and jazzy Acappella productions. Yoshie’s creation varies from traditional Japanese songs, educational piano pieces, to jazz big band, orchestra, and so on. Some of Yoshie's works are stocked…
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Utako Toyama

Utako Toyama

Utako Toyama Utako Toyama is a multi-award-winning composer, founder of SkyBridge and co-founder of Songs for World Peace. She is also a recipient of an exceptional talent visa in the U.S. and the UK and is currently based in London, UK. Her goal is to use the maximum of her…
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Connie Fortunato

Connie Fortunato

Connie Fortunato Connie Fortunato has a passion to inspire children to dream big dreams and then work hard to achieve them. She believes that all children are talented and when involved in a dynamic and positive learning environment, can break through the limitations of a system or society that fails…
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Vera Chisvo

Vera Chisvo

Vera Chisvo Overview: Vera is a Zimbabwean-based funky jazz vocalist and guitarist. As a proud activist and philanthropist, she recently founded a creative hub in Harare, Zimbabwe, the Incubator ZW: a virtual hub that aims at inspiring and motivating creatives to reach their full potential. Incubator ZW also hosts a…
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Kartika Jahja

Kartika Jahja

Kartika Jahja Kartika Jahja is a vocalist and songwriter with the group Tika & The Dissidents. Some of the albums they have released to date are Frozen Love Songs (2005), Defrosted Love Songs (2006), Headless Songstress (2009) and MERAH (2016). The band is known to fuse different genres from punk,…
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Dayvin Hallmon

Dayvin Hallmon

Dayvin Hallmon Dayvin M.A. Hallmon is the musical grandchild of Jascha Heifetz, Dr. Thomas Dorsey and Dr. Mattie Moss Clark. Since the age of 9, Dayvin has been building ensembles in churches and helping congregations craft a strategic vision for their music ministry. Perfectly at home in both Gospel and…
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