Zakiya Hooker | Keeping It Real
New CD Release
San Francisco, CA – When your daddy is blues icon, the late great, four-time Grammy winner, John Lee Hooker, what’s
a blues sangin’ sista to do? When posed with that dilemma, Zakiya
Hooker has only one answer, and that is, “to keep it real.” And on
June 16, she plans to do just that when she releases her new CD, “Keeping It Real” produced by her husband, Ollan Bell, on their independent label, Boogie with the Hook Records distributed by BDC Distribution.
Photo taken in 1995 of Zakiya with her dad, the late, great John Lee Hooker
the third of the Hooker offsprings, is no newcomer to the blues game.
This is her fourth CD release. “Keeping It Real” will see her dueting
with her dad, singing (or is that sangin’?) the blues in Spanish and
just downright keeping it real!
“This
CD is very special to me because it is a blending of two cultures,”
Zakiya reveals. Produced and recorded mostly in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, Zakiya further explains, “This CD is a culmination of hard
work and dedication that spans North and South America. It is truly a
global work of love for all involved.”
“The wonder of this
CD,” she adds, “is that I have not been in Buenos Aires for five
years. My husband, Ollan, has spent the last six years gathering just
the right people together to come up with a diverse collection of some
of the finest musicians in Buenos Aires. He did the music and vocals in
Buenos Aires and then came back to America for me to do my vocals in
our home studio, John Lee Hooker’s Boom Boom Studio. Despite the
language barrier and cultural differences the universal language of the
blues brought us all together.”
It
may be a man’s world, but Zakiya Hooker brings the sass and the
charm proving that ‘it ain’t nothing without a woman.’ Visit with her
at www.zakiyahooker.com.
Jazzmyne PR