Talibah Safiya
vocalist. songwriter. performer.
TUH-LEE-BUH SAH-FEE-YAH
Talibah is a multi-disciplinary artist focusing on healing through music, writing, and experience curation. Safiya’s latest record, Black Magic, was released in collaboration with the University of Memphis’s School of Music Business where she served as Artist in Residence. This project, listed as one of Ann Powers’ (NPR) favorite albums of 2024, interprets and reframes the University’s hill country blues catalog housed by Highwater Records
Safiya’s latest single, Sure Thing, was listed as one of Got Blues favorite songs of 2024. Last spring, her songs “I Love You Me” and “Unlimited” were featured in Walmart X Raedio’s latest “Black and Unlimited” compilation project.
As a songwriter, she recently contributed to the soundtrack for shows on both MAX and STARZ and is excited to continue to express her love for music through all different genres and on worldwide stages.
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Photo taken at Amerikana Festival
““At the festival, she was performing for a tent of people who didn’t know who she was, and she was just zeroing in on people speaking directly to them. She was witty, she was bawdy, she was frank.” ”