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Lee Hooper Y Amigues

Caribbean / NYC

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Recorded live on Aug. 7, 2025, by Tyler Wood at The Hurley House in Hurleyville, NY. 
Mixed and mastered by Tyler Wood at Sauce Farm Studio, Catskill, NY

 

About The Artist

Drawing upon the breath and beat of flute and body, “delicate, if deft, survivor” (Downbeat Magazine) lee hooper exhales sentiments of past, present, and future by accessing defining nuances of human emotion. Performances by lee often intertwine themes of acceptance, grief, hope, joy, liberation, rage, and reciprocity with the vast interdisciplinary repertoire and legacy of black and gender-expansive revolutionaries, using interpolation, improvisation, and electronics to pigment distinct perspectives of sound. An invitation is extended to listeners to self-reflect in the mirrors of comfort and discomfort.

lee performs with and composes for New York City’s only queer and trans salsa band, Las Mariquitas, which is “reimagining salsa and challenging the patriarchy” (Rolling Stone). lee is on the Jazz Committee of the National Flute Association, and they are an artist for CloudVocal wireless audio technology. They have performed for the United Nations and have been acknowledged by The New York Times and Playbill. lee has collaborated with artists such as duendita, Joy Guidry, Key Glock, Sara Ramírez, and Solange.

 
 

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