Meet The Team
Comprised of mostly Black, Indigenous, and POC instructors and program staff, our team at Keys Beats Bars embodies a mentorship, teaching, and programmatic style that is flexible and people-focused to the youth we support and the community partners we engage with.
From the range of lived experiences amongst our team to the decades of combined professional experience in our instructors’ creative arts and our staffs’ admin, programming, and media work, we move collectively in our work of displaying cultural music as an alternative form to heal and strengthen people and communities.
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Aaron Nigel Smith
Musician, Educator
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Adam Carpinelli
Executive Director
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Akash Gaman
Beatmaker, Dancer
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Alejandro IV Barragán
Multimedia Artist
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Alex Addy
Percussionist, Educator
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Blacque Butterfly
Musician, Singer, Poet, Activist
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Boinor Nartey Jr.
Percussionist, Educator
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Caroline Davis
Musician, Activist, Educator
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Chaz Chavez
Musician, Producer, Sound Engineer, Sound Healer
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Elijah El-Beze
Opium Sabbah
Hip Hop Educator, Artist, Activist -
Gordon Lee
Composer, Jazz Pianist, Conductor, Educator
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Hans Barklis
Musician, Educator, and
Capoeira Performer and Trainer -
Isidro Valor Perez
Master Percussionist, Educator
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Israel Annoh
Drummer, Percussionist, Educator
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Machado Mijiga
Producer, Multi-Instrumentalist
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Mapathé Diop
Master Drummer, Educator
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Maria & Eduardo
Founders and Performers
of Huehca Omeycocan -
Martin Vavra
Director, Filmmaker,
Film Instructor -
Massamba Diop
Master Tama Drummer
Percussionist -
Mic Crenshaw
Poet, Emcee, Advocate
Rapper, Educator -
Michael Galen
Dancer, Musician, Educator
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Nicole Tignor
Photos, Coffee Roaster, Mentor
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Nomi Asghar
Visual artist
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Olive DelSol
DJ, Producer, Digital Artist, Teacher
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Ryley Ha'o
Marketing Manager
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Swiggle Mandela
Hip Hop artist, Mentor
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Talilo Marfil
Hip Hop Artist, Educator
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Toni Hill
Singer, Educator
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Valentina Ortiz
Musician, Storyteller
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Xavier Tavares
Videographer