Radha Botofasina

Radha Botofasina

Radha Renee Reyes-Botofasina is an Afro-Cuban American harpist, pianist and vocalist from Brooklyn, N.Y.As a young woman Botofasina was part of a band called The Spirits of Rhythm.While living in Agoura Hills, CA. Botofasina became a music student of Alice Coltrane, the wife of prominent jazz musician John Coltrane. Reyes-Botofasina has played harp at several memorial events following Coltrane's death. She is the director of the Universal Consciousness Harp Ensemble which performs in Los Angeles. Botofasina has released many albums, beginning with her debut Mantram in 1999.Botofasina studied with Coltrane while she lived on the 50-acre ashram Coltrane founded in 1983, Coltrane died in 2007.In the Los Angeles jazz scene Botofasina has performed harp with the Dwight Trible Cosmic Band.In 2010, Botofasina performed Coltrane's sacred music before audiences at UCLA's Royce Hall.Botofasina formed the Eternal Soul Orchestra (ESO) in 2013 which debuted her orchestral work Meditations on the Supreme at the California African American Museum and in 2015 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

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