Tomás Doncker and Yusef Komunyakaa

About

Producer, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and indie label CEO Tomás Doncker has collaborated with luminaries such as Bootsy Collins, Patti Smith, Meshell Ndegeocello, Ivan Neville, and Bonnie Raitt and helms his own band, Tomás Doncker & The True Groove All-Stars. His ongoing musical collaborations with Yusef Komunyakaa have yielded four critically acclaimed albums. Their most recent is called Endangered.
Yusef Komunyakaa’s books of poetry include Taboo, Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular (for which he received the Pulitzer Prize), Warhorses, The Chameleon Couch, Emperor of Water Clocks, Night Animals, and most recently Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth. His plays, performance art, and libretti have been performed internationally and include Saturnalia, Testimony, and Gilgamesh.