Tamara Colletta Brown, better known as Tamar-kali, is an American rock singer-songwriter and composer born, raised and based in Brooklyn, New York. A second-generation musician through her father, who was a band leader and played bass and drums in local funk and soul bands, Tamar-kali developed a deep appreciation for her Gullah roots, a mixture of Indigenous Southern U.S. and West African customs and languages due to spending the summers of her childhood with her mother's family on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. Read more on Last.fm