JOJO ABOT

Jojo Abot is a Ghanaian artist and musician, based in Brooklyn, New York City. Her creative output spans video direction, acting, modeling, singing and multimedia performance. Abot's work taps into her home country, using her first language, Ewe, as a source to title her work and as a point of origin for musical inspiration. Her musical inspirations include Fela Kuti and Ebo Taylor. Abot has toured and performed with Kuti’s youngest son Seun Kuti, as well as rapper Common and Bob Marley’s son Stephen. She has also supported Lauryn Hill, whose influence can also be felt alongside that of Eryka Badu. Abot's origin story and family history play an important role in her musical work. For instance, her grandmother's name FYFA WOFO inspired the name of her debut album in 2016. FYFA WOFO centers around a narrative in which an African woman becomes pregnant with a white man's child. Abot developed FYFA WOFO into a multimedia project while she participated in NEW INC, the New Museum's incubator for artists, designers and technologists. Abot's music bends genres and is inspired by jazz, afropunk, hip hop and soul, as well as tribal and indigenous sounds. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jojo_Abot) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)