Our Songleaders

Benja is a professional musician and educator based in Richmond CA. He is on the board of directors of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, an immigration rights and anti-incarceration nonprofit org. He is also the founder/director of the Joyful Noise! Gospel Singers, a nonprofit community choir. He is a human rights and racial justice activist, advocating through writing, speaking, Civil Rights songleading, and fostering interfaith and interracial alliances. Benja has been leading Black Spiritual music for over 15 years. He is also a Certified Executive Coach and Inclusion Specialist through the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute (BECI)

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Kid Beyond: Electro-soul legend. Singer, songwriter, producer. Songleader. Activist. Legendary beatboxer / live-looper. Buddhist teacher. Love Warrior.

His intoxicating new single — HONEY — is a sultry, steamy electro-soul voyage: a dizzying alchemy of sensual, spiritual, mythical communion.

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Kid Beyond has rocked festivals like Coachella, Earthdance, Symbiosis, SXSW, Lightning in a Bottle, and beyond.

He’s opened for Michael Franti, Imogen Heap, Bassnectar, Will.I.Am, James Brown, Ray Charles, the Neville Brothers, Widespread Panic, Balkan Bump, Lupe Fiasco, Keane, Steve Aoki, Disco Biscuits, Glitch Mob, Amon Tobin, Lyrics Born, Buckethead, The Coup, and many more.

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Kid B has led song circles for over 20 years, and has returned to this longtime love, inspired by his dear friend and former partner Lisa Littlebird.

He offers music as medicine — a joyful, playful, soulful, powerful alchemy of expression, connection, inspiration, and healing.

He helps folks open their voices and hearts... offering songs of his own and others... creating new songs through improvisation... weaving in play, movement, embodiment, breathwork, ritual, joy, shadow...

He co-leads San Francisco’s monthly Song Circle Magic, and offers circles at festivals and venues nationwide.

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Tobirus Mozelle arrived on the house music scene in 2013 after moving to the SF Bay Area from North Carolina. With a background in gospel, alt. rock, accapella ensembles, and R&B he brings a soulful, funky, and brassy dynamic to the tracks he graces. He has found a home with the Moulton Music label out of Oakland/SF and it the vocalist for the nu disco/deep house crew, The SyntheTigers. He has started to garner international attention with his vocal stylings and collaborations with a litany of house djs who have remixed his tracks or featured them in prominent radio shows. He puts his heart and soul into every track he is a part of and deeply believes that "music is the essence of life!"Tobirus Mozelle arrived on the house music scene in 2013 after moving to the SF Bay Area from North Carolina. With a background in gospel, alt. rock, accapella ensembles, and R&B he brings a soulful, funky, and brassy dynamic to the tracks he graces. He has found a home with the Moulton Music label out of Oakland/SF and it the vocalist for the nu disco/deep house crew, The SyntheTigers. He has started to garner international attention with his vocal stylings and collaborations with a litany of house djs who have remixed his tracks or featured them in prominent radio shows. He puts his heart and soul into every track he is a part of and deeply believes that "music is the essence of life!"

https://soundcloud.com/tobirusmozelle

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Our Big Sing organizing team is gathering a motley group of fabulous friends to lead us in a few wholehearted singalongs. Amongst us there are some serious musical chops (ex: Troy wrote the theme song to the Beijing Olympics) and experience curation chops (ex: Oprah said of the workshops we lead, "This is how we change the world") but mostly we're a community of friends here to sing, laugh and enjoy soulful good times.