SOME BAASSIK THINGS ABOUT BAASSIK

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Some fav foods: Coffee, Chocolate, Smucker's™️Goobler Grape peanut butter and coffee. (Was coffee mentioned?!)

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Fav colors: Red, Black, Silver

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Her work as a music ambassador with Jazz At Lincoln Center: American Music Abroad, (as part of the defunct Hip-Hop band, The Lo Frequency), was documented in a book titled "Music and Diplomacy from the Early Modern Era to the Present", (Editors: Ahrendt, R., Ferraguto, M., Mahiet, D. (Eds.)), It is required reading in colleges throughout the United States. https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137468321 

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Her stage name's creation, BAASSIK, was partially influenced by a song/concept of one of her favorite Hip-Hop groups, De La Soul's D.A.I.S.Y., -an acronym for "... da inner sound, ya'll."  When their album, 3 feet High and Rising, was first released, she absolutely loved it. BAASSIK stands for:  "Black Artist(s) Are Standing Supremely In Key (Knowledge)". It also the concept that describes her style of not being "flashy", a throw-back against the expected flashiness as a performing artist.

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As a child, she played violin, viola, acoustic guitar and trumpet. She also dabbled on keys and her Boss DR-110 analog drum machine, which still uses occasionally. She was also in her elementary school's chorus. 

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She's an only child and was born in Manhattan, NY and raised by her maternal great-grandmother.

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An admitted "gear-head", she has G.A.S.-"Gear Acquisition Syndrome". she loves checking out music gear!