Book Martha Redbone

Martha Redbone is an American singer, songwriter and composer whose music fuses rhythm and blues and soul with the sounds of her Native American and African American heritage. Mentored by Junie Morrison, of Ohio Players and Parliament Funkadelic fame, in writing and production, she released Home of the Brave (2001), Skintalk (2004) and Future Street (2006). Skintalk won Best R&B Album at the 6th Annual Independent Music Awards in 2007. Her 2012 project, The Garden of Love – Songs of William Blake, sets the poet's verses to music rooted in Appalachian traditions, mixing English folk, African American and Native American influences. With her husband and creative partner Aaron Whitby, Redbone composed the score for the Public Theater's 2019 staging of Ntozake Shange's choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf, and the pair earned the 2020 Drama Desk award for Outstanding Music in a Play. Their score then reached Broadway in the 2022 revival. Redbone tours nationally with the Martha Redbone Roots Project, delivering a powerful, soulful voice and a stirring blend of roots music, storytelling and cultural heritage on concert stages.