NATALIA M. KING
Genres: Blues, Pop, Art Song, Folk • Dominican Republic

Of Dominican origin, Natalia M. King was born in 1969 in Brooklyn’s Latino-American district.  When she was an adolescent she left the “barrio” to settle with her family in Rochester, New York State.   She went on to study sociology and history at university.  But then, at a time when the majority of her contemporaries chose to join the rat race for material comforts and profit, she rejected all ideas of conventional social success.  In the great tradition of Jack Kerouac’s Beat Generation, she hit the road.  “The call of the wild! When it starts to get at you, you can’t resist for long.”  With her notebook in her pocket, the explorer began to roam the United States from East to West, stopping here and there (the Grand Canyon, Oregon, Seattle, Alaska), wherever her desires and opportunities took her, trying the whole range of menial jobs read more...