Bush Tea

“I was born into art,” says Bush Tea, whose mother studied dance and did poetry. From a young age the artist danced, painted, wrote songs and followed the creative impulses of her soul. “My spiritual desires had a physical manifestation, so when I did my work I felt joy, happiness, alive,” says the artist. Songwriting and acting are her primary mediums. Her work is about her Afro-Caribbean heritage. She is constantly challenging a world that has made her body and culture “consumptive and edible,” and yet still able to rejoice in her feminine power. Addressing a music industry that has bastardized images of women for the viewing pleasure of others, Bush Tea maintains that in her work “I get to dictate my image – to choose how and if I package myself – and that is powerful.” Lately she’s been focused on a recording project with producers/engineers Mike Flannery, Jon FX, Kirk Thuglas and Jachary Beats in NYC and Miami, and teaches underprivileged youth in order to help fund her project. She has 5 dancey singles with divine imagery in the works for a staggered release this Spring. This past March, Bush performed at the Jungle Party at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, an event celebrating the beauty of immigrants and dance where M.I.A’s drummer, Madame Gandhi, was the headliner.