Good Soil is cultivating an expansive, living, and breathing artistic landscape by providing a platform for artists who infuse their own lived experiences and cultural perspectives into their work.
Hip Hopera
Nigerian-American Baritone, Babatunde Akinboboye, has performed with opera and theater companies around the world.
In 2018, Babatunde combined his love of classical opera with hip hop and created the new genre Hip Hopera, which has gained over 10 milllion views online.
Trap Opera
Madelyn Brene
Madelyn Brene is a trailblazer, leading a new crossover music movement known as Trap Opera. This styie blends the conservative nature of the opera with the bold styles of R&B and Hip Hop.
In addition to over 20 years of classical training, the songstress has also been a featured vocalist internationally and shared stages with many R&B greats.
MEET
Good soil
Good Soil Production + Management LLC is a production and artist management company that produces musical and theater performances and manages musical artists. Good Soil works within the music sector to produce original performance art, handling booking, producing, marketing, and curating works that help to showcase and amplify the contributions of underrepresented voices. Artist management offerings included artist development, branding, marketing, touring, booking, merchandising, management, etc.
Good Soil works to amplify and support Black artists along with those voices that have not traditionally fit the established model. We work with artists and theatrical productions that are eclectic, unconventional, and allow for the artist's authentic voice to be heard.
Good Soil centers the Black voice and cultural aesthetic, even as it interacts with other cultural influences. Their artists come from a background in Western Classical and Opera, yet bring differing experiences that expand what is traditionally presented.Their works expound upon the standard repertoire, spotlighting artists and productions that question and disregard common practice. Good Soil is about creating a more expansive living and breathing art form by platforming artists who are infusing their own lived experiences and cultural perspective into their work. The current roster consists of performers and content creators, including Babatunde Akinboboye, aka The HipHopera Guy, and Madelyn Brene, the voice of Trap Opera.
Who we are
CEO + Chief Creative Officer
Angelique Dumas Edwards
COO +Chief Administrative Officer
Angelique Dumas edwards
COO + CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer of Good Soil Production + Management, Angelique Dumas Edwards is a certified project manager who possesses over 20 years of experience in community development, emergency management, organizational change management, and project management.
Angelique has worked with governments, nonprofits, and for profit programs and projects, helping small businesses and organizations plan and implement long term strategies to achieve their goals and objectives. Angelique is Principal Consultant at Dumas Edwards, LLC, where she serves as lead project manager, technical advisor, grant, and proposal writer/administrator for the public and private sector, analyzing problematic situations and providing solid solutions to ensure organizational survival and growth while ensuring policies and legal guidelines are communicated throughout the organization.
Ms. Dumas Edwards holds a Masters Degree in Urban and Regional Studies from Minnesota State University at Mankato and is a proud HBCU graduate of Southern University at New Orleans.
Jayme Alilaw
CEO + Chief Creative officer
Co-Founder and CEO of Good Soil Production + Management, Jayme Alilaw is an Army veteran, mother, and creator, engaging the world as an artist, executive leadership coach, entrepreneur, and activist, providing the artistic vision and strategy for the company. With advanced degrees in Vocal Performance and over 15 years of experience as an opera singer and coach, activating and engaging the power of the voice is the unifying theme in all Jayme does.
As an artist, Jayme is at home in traditional and contemporary operatic repertoire, having recently premiered the role of The Mother in I Can’t Breathe, an opera by librettist Brandon J. Gibson and composer Leslie Burrs. Jayme served as a Resident Artist with The Atlanta Opera for 10 years, performing in community outreach tours, creating school artist residency programs, and curating unconventional collaborations with various Atlanta-based arts organizations, including The High Museum, The Alliance Theater, Museum of Design Atlanta, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and Dad's Garage Theater Company where Jayme co-founded the operatic improv troupe, ImprOper. A veteran of the U.S. Army, Jayme frequently sang for military ceremonies, including during her deployment to Northern Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
In addition to performing, Jayme enjoys producing collaborations across artistic mediums, seeking creative innovation and providing a voice for social justice. Driven by a passion for traditional Spirituals and commitment to elevating the voices of Black creators, is currently touring La Femme Noire: The Celebrated Woman, a concert of music, storytelling and poetry in celebration of the contributions of African American women as composers, poets, and singers to Western classical music. Jayme serves as a Leadership Council member of the Black Opera Alliance, board member of OperaWorks, and newly appointed member of the OPERA America Civil Practice Council.
If a rose can grow out of concrete
Imagine how it would flourish when planted in Good Soil
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