LA native Monique DeBose is an award-winning, multi-talented playwright and Jazz-R&B-pop singer/songwriter, who has toured and entertained audiences throughout Europe, India and Asia. Her third album–The Sovereign One–is scheduled for release in Fall 2018. A leading vocal improvisationalist (having studied under Rhiannon and Joey Blake of the renowned Bobby McFerrin Voicestra), Monique now leads an international community of over 500 vocal artists throughout the United States and Europe. Inspired by her experience of of what it means to be half African American, half Irish American, she wrote the funny, heart-warming and disruptive one-woman show Mulatto Math: Summing Up The Race Equation in America to initiate conversation and heal race relations in America. She tours around the country, performing the show and facilitating workshops on identity, race and belonging.
Monique facilitates experiential workshops as well as individual coaching for people ready to live a fully expressed life. She holds a master's degree in Spiritual Psychology and a BA in Mathematics from UC Berkeley. Monique calls LA home, is married to a Brit and is raising two compassionate, culturally intelligent boys.
www.MoniqueDeBose.com
www.MoniqueDeBose.com/creation (for a June 15-17, 2018 workshop for women)
www.MulattoMath.com
www.MoniqueDeBoseMusic.com
On this episode of She Rises, host Giovanna Capozza interviews Monique Debose, LA native, award winning multi talented playwright, and jazz R&B pop singer-songwriter who has tour across India and Asia. She now leads an international community of over 500 vocal artists across the U.S. and Europe.
Monique discusses how she wanted to be seen growing up and came to realize she wasn’t showing up.
Monique talks about what happened between growing up and becoming a successful playwright and jazz singer.
We are often living lives of quiet dissatisfaction with is a tiny death to the soul every day.
You have to keep taking steps forward even when it feels painful and raw.
You can live so much in your own world that you forget what people see on the outside.
You don’t need to spend your time fitting into something that is not you.
One of Monique’s super powers is being observant.
If you’re not belonging somewhere, is it because it’s not the place for your soul’s journey?
Monique talks about bridge culture and how two polarities come together.
Answer who you are in the world to activate the parts inside that need to be awoken.
Monique talks about the value of community and sisterhood when taking the time for yourself.
Learn how to explore deeper layers of self-expression.
Tweetable Quotes:
Things happen in their perfect timing.
I cannot not express, my life literally and figuratively depends on it.
Michelangelo didn’t carve David, he just removed what was holding it back from its full potential.
Resources Mentioned:
GiovannaCapozza.com
moniquedebose.com/creation
