Yasmeen can sing just about anything! She is a spiritual psalmist, lyricist, published and award winning songwriter, author, professional counselor, and mother of the awesome voice of her daughter Summer. She has an interesting knack for bridging the old with the new and a unique way of blending a deep soul sounds into various genres such as gospel, jazz, hymns, hip hop, spirituals, blues, even serious music. She has a remarkable ear, stage presence, and spirit for music - with instrumentation or without. Yasmeen grew up singing down home a cappella music with her sisters and other family members since the age of three. She is a conduit for the music of her ancestors. She grew up under the singing voices of her mother from Ensley, Alabama, her father from Fairplay Seneca, South Carolina, gospel hall of fame cousin Shirley Ables, church organists Professor Henry Mansfield and Professor Dorothy Davis, voice teachers Frederick "Wilkie" Wilkerson, Joy McClean Bosfield, and cultural icon Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon. She received training in drama at Spelman and Clark Colleges and from the DC Black Repertory Company directed by actor Robert Hooks. She sang with the internationally acclaimed and Grammy Award winning a cappella sextet Sweet Honey In The Rock for approximately twenty years and shortly thereafter for five years with harpist Jeffmajors. Yasmeen has an original cd written in 1991 still in demand in 2007 throughout the country. "I've gotten a request for the same cd at <b>...</b>
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