Shakura is an award-winning performer who has traveled the globe for more than two decades, connecting and inspiring audiences with her powerful vocals. An undeniable talent and an outspoken advocate for human rights and racial equality, her artistic work reflects that which impacts and connects us all: love. “I believe that we all have a responsibility to look after each other,” says the Toronto-based artist. “I see, create, and use music as a way to bring people together.”
A central figure in Canada’s music scene, the Brooklyn-born, Swiss-raised entertainer has garnered not only an international recording and touring career, but has shined on the theatre stage as star and creator of the four-woman tribute to Nina Simone, The Nina Project, and in roles on-screen including as Lena, member of the beloved “Jazzagals” in the acclaimed series Schitt’s Creek, and most recently in the part of Cora Lewis, mother to Batwoman in DC Comics / Warner Brothers hit series of the same name.