It’s Indie Jazz Day on Solar Records Radio Guest Heshima Moja Wardell Potts Jr

Guest Mr Heshima Moja Hosted by Wardell Potts Jr and Don Fleming

Heshima Moja is a dynamic Bassist, Vocalist, Composer, and Cultural Arts Presenter, who walks in
a world where music, art and scholarship intersect. He is heavily guided in his work by the influences
of Black Classical Music(often termed jazz), orchestral music, Afro-Cuban Rumba, Hip Hop, The
Music of the Arab world, Sufi Music, Ghazals, Indian Classical Music, as well as other musical
forms from throughout the African Diaspora, the work of James Baldwin, Eugenio Maria de Hostos,
Gaye Theresa Johnson, Fernando Ortiz, Juan Flores, Maria Theresa Linares Savio, Steven Biko.
Heshima believes that art should be used as a tool to aid in the development of critical consciousness
and to inspire people to imagine new ways of being in the world.
Throughout his impressive career, Heshima has composed music for Nickelodeon, PBS, as
well as music for theatre and film; and has released two C.D.’s, The Awakening (2017) and Round
and Round (2011). Heshima has recorded and shared the stage with some of the greatest names in the
music industry which represent a broad cross section of cultural expression, including R&B legends
Patti Labelle, Hi-Five; Latin music superstars La India, Paoili Mejias, Grammy-winning Latin Jazz
trombonist and composer William Cepeda; Indian Sitar master Shafat Khan, Jazz icons Arturo
O’Farrill, Avery Sharpe, Fred Ho, Onaje Allan Gumbs, and Salim Washington, Senegalese
Superstars Pape Diouf, Elage Diouf, as well as Hip Hop Pioneers Quest Love of the Roots, Guru,
Farrah Boule & Tribal Hop.

For Bookings Please Contact:
TMO Entertanment
tmoentertainment@gmail.com