Zili Misik


  • an 8-piece ALL FEMALE band that performs dance and roots music of the African Diaspora! 
  • Their music connects Haitian roots, jazz, high life, reggae, samba, Cuban son, gospel and neo-soul.

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Zili Misik has been bridging cultures, generations, and continents for seven years. With captivating sounds that evoke the African continent, Zili retraces routes of forced exile and cultural resistance through diasporic rhythm and song.  Powerful Haitian, Brazilian and West African rhythms infuse Zili's original creations and traditional folksongs.  Reconnecting Haitian mizik rasin, Jamaican roots reggae, Afro-Brazilian samba, Afro-Cuban son, and African American spirituals, blues, jazz and neo soul, Zili Misik honors its influences while creating a sound that is uniquely its own.

All female, zili takes its name from Haitian spiritual entity, "Ezili" who is envisaged as mother, lover, and warrior.  Zili's songs are sensual, political, self-reflective, positive, and invoke love.  Zili's lyrics glide seamlessly from English to Kreyol to Portuguese to Spanish, spinning tales and visions of lives lived and yet to be.

Zili Misik is winner of ROCKRGRL's and Berklee College of Music's BATTLE of the All-FEMALE BANDS.

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