Windafire is an interdisciplinary healing artist whose primary medium is songwriting. Windafire received the majority of his vocal training as a member of the Afro-American Music Institute’s Boys Choir and in private instruction with his mentor Phat Man Dee. As an artivist and deeply spiritual person, Windafire is dedicated to bringing about harmony and unity through ancestral healing. For the past two years, he has been a member of Dreams Of Hope, a LGBTQ+ youth theater group whose creative contributions educate audiences, build awareness, and increase acceptance.
Windafire collaborates with the rest doula and artist Onika Reigns on their project Black Dream Escape, which offers nap/meditation sessions. These sessions use original music and texts which teach our Black, Indigenous, and queer communities about the power of rest.
Windafire is home-educated and often finds himself involved with his mother’s projects. Recently, he wrote the soundtrack for her short film Given the Circumstances, which was produced as part of Alisha Wormsley’s AfroNauta Project. Windafire is a regular feature at local icon Phat Mandee’s Tune It Tuesdays.
He has worked on recording his original music with Liz Berlin of Rusted Root. This year, he will record an EP, The Pool Of Time with Berlin, at Creative Life Support. In 2013, Windafire was a co-collaborator for “Unlisted: Second Steel,” an international performance art collaboration about place, on a vacant lot in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. He created the character Prosper, a rememory of a child displaced by gentrification in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. Windafire and dancer Juan Aldape developed a father-son story around Prosper. Edwin Lee Gibson, an actor, was so inspired that he chose to play Prosper as an adult returning to face his rememory. In 2011, Windafire’s sound piece was used for a short experimental film by Natasha Marin for her Red Lineage Project. (See video below.) The film went to several international film festivals.
Windafire is completing his initiation as a Lucumi priest; studying herbs, and contemplating the right college. He plans on releasing his first full EP and offering the Black Dream Escape on a regular basis, funded by The Pittsburgh Foundation’s Social Justice Fund.
Windafire collaborates with the rest doula and artist Onika Reigns on their project Black Dream Escape, which offers nap/meditation sessions. These sessions use original music and texts which teach our Black, Indigenous, and queer communities about the power of rest.
Windafire is home-educated and often finds himself involved with his mother’s projects. Recently, he wrote the soundtrack for her short film Given the Circumstances, which was produced as part of Alisha Wormsley’s AfroNauta Project. Windafire is a regular feature at local icon Phat Mandee’s Tune It Tuesdays.
He has worked on recording his original music with Liz Berlin of Rusted Root. This year, he will record an EP, The Pool Of Time with Berlin, at Creative Life Support. In 2013, Windafire was a co-collaborator for “Unlisted: Second Steel,” an international performance art collaboration about place, on a vacant lot in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. He created the character Prosper, a rememory of a child displaced by gentrification in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. Windafire and dancer Juan Aldape developed a father-son story around Prosper. Edwin Lee Gibson, an actor, was so inspired that he chose to play Prosper as an adult returning to face his rememory. In 2011, Windafire’s sound piece was used for a short experimental film by Natasha Marin for her Red Lineage Project. (See video below.) The film went to several international film festivals.
Windafire is completing his initiation as a Lucumi priest; studying herbs, and contemplating the right college. He plans on releasing his first full EP and offering the Black Dream Escape on a regular basis, funded by The Pittsburgh Foundation’s Social Justice Fund.
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There Are Black People in the Future | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Here is an article about me in The Pittsburgh Post Gazette when Windafire was 12 years old .
On November 20, 2014 on WQED Pittsburgh, featured Windafire in their series Portrayal & Perception: African American Men & Boys. The episode is titled "Already Doing It." It is available for streaming from their website.
Local music recommendations from iconic Pittsburgh musicians
Here is an article about me in The Pittsburgh Post Gazette when Windafire was 12 years old .
On November 20, 2014 on WQED Pittsburgh, featured Windafire in their series Portrayal & Perception: African American Men & Boys. The episode is titled "Already Doing It." It is available for streaming from their website.
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