Nigerian-born sound artist, poet, singer and dancer Jumoke Adeyanju aka mokeyanju lives and works in Berlin. Her music is heavily influenced by Detroit’s hip-hop and house music legacy, as well as fuji, highlife, ndombolo, and percussive music genres. She also has a keen interest in East African and Caribbean culture. She discovered Calypso, Zanzibarian Taarab, Benga, Soukous as well as contemporary East African sounds. She has been featured as a composer, backing singer, poet and songwriter in various musical and sound-art based projects and exhibitions. As an allround-artist, her approach touches on topics like diaspora nostalgia, memory, spiritual liminal spaces, sonic tonalities, and how various elements of expressive art forms interrelate and incorporate the potential to (re-)create moments of lost selves.
mokeyanju is receiving one of the project scholarships in the amount of 2,000 euros that in 2020 were awarded among the applicants for residencies abroad.
In 2024, mokeyanju is awarded the residency at Vila Sul in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
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