TALIBAH SAFIYA

Talibah Safiya is an independent Soul Artist and a captivating story teller from Memphis TN. Using minimal but impactful instrumentation and visually stimulating lyricism, Talibah deeply connects you to her story and your own. 

Her debut project “Love Spells Live” was released in March of 2023 in collaboration with the University of Memphis’s Highwater Records. Her second project with Highwater Records is “Black Magic” and is set to be released in 2024. It is a reimagining of blues Classics from the Highwater catalog including artists like Junior Kimbrough and Jessie Mae Hemphill. This project is done in collaboration with 77x gold and platinum engineer and producer Ari Morris, visual artist, and producer, Bradon Deener, and multi-instrumentalist producer, Madame Fraankie. She has written songs for RapSh!t on HBO Max, Sexxy Red, and more.

Talibah is currently an artist in residence at the University of Memphis’s School of Music Business. She is also a curator and wellness activist through her social enterprise venture, Mama’s Sundry with her husband Bertram Williams Jr.