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YATTA is a Sierra Leonean-American artist and composer working across sound, performance, sculpture, installation, and video. Their practice is defined by textural electronics, improvisation, spirituality, and surprise.
Their debut EP Spirit Said Yes!(2016, Purple Tape Pedigree) established their presence in New York's experimental music scene. Their album WAHALA (2019) — named one of Pitchfork’s Best Experimental Albums of the Year — served as the score for An Episode: Ricky's Room, a multimedia theatrical performance commissioned by The Shed and was later presented as a film through Tate Modern's collaboration with NTS Radio. In 2020, they released DIAL UP, a collaborative album with poet and musician Moor Mother.
Their most recent album, PALM WINE (2024), was named one of The Wire's Best Albums of the year. Drawing on the legacy of their great uncle, renowned Sierra Leonean palm wine musician S. E. Rogie, the record reimagines the genre's storytelling, lilting vocals, and spirit of levity and play. These themes extend into their visual practice: their solo exhibition Iron + Palm Wine (Art Omi, 2025–26) examined Black wandering and colonial pastoral mythologies, while their solo exhibition FATHAGOD.EXE (Blade Study, 2025) explored spiritual technology, extraction, and diasporic connectivity.
YATTA has performed and exhibited at MoMA, MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, Tate Modern, Park Avenue Armory, The Getty, Pioneer Works, On Air Fest, and internationally at Les Urbaines, Wysing Polyphonic, New Forms Festival, Rewire Festival, and Vakuum Festival, among others. They have shared stages with Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Laraaji, L'Rain, The Sun Ra Arkestra, and Cardi B.
Their work has been covered by Pitchfork, The Wire, The Quietus, Artforum, and ArtNews, and their writing has appeared in Pioneer Works Broadcast Magazine and The Brooklyn Rail. YATTA holds an MFA in Music and Sound from Bard College and a BA in Film Studies from Wesleyan University.
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