Turiya Mareya is part of a group bringing weekly Afro-Latin jazz sessions to the WorldBeat Cultural Center in Balboa Park. As part of the group Samsara, Mareya is joined by fellow musicians in using music to focus on education and community engagement.
Turiya Mareya was 5 when she began learning to play the piano and she figures her family of musicians probably expected her to play in church. She had other plans.
“I studied a little bit of classical music, but quickly got bored with that. I didn’t want to play the same thing every time. I wanted to improvise even before I knew what that was,” she says. Growing up in Texas, her uncles were professional musicians who played country music, but loved playing the blues. One of her cousins was a popular, skilled steel guitar player who played the jazz version of Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Mercy Me” during a visit, and she was in love with the genre. For more than 45 years, Mareya’s music career has focused on Latin jazz and included tours in Asia, Europe, Mexico, and Canada.
We will use this platform to talk about the history of the music and encourage diverse communities to come together to create music together. I can think of nothing more intimate. People that play music together must listen to each other on a deep level. Hopefully, they will learn to love each other. We are living in a time of horrific racial divides. Music, Makeda’s wonderful food, and people talking, eating, and just physically being together will help bridge that ignorance and divide.
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