Crosslegged

Born in Norristown, PA and raised between Pennsylvania and California, Keba’s musical inspirations span folk, experimental pop, post punk, indie rock and soul. She grew up in a Jamaican household where the sounds that filled the air ran the gamut of roots reggae acts like Burning Spear and Third World and singer-songwriters of the 60s and 70s like Carole King and The Mamas and the Papas, which developed her original love of singing and pure melody. When she was a teenager she fell in love with The Pixies, and then folk music, which is ultimately what pushed her to learn how to play guitar and try her hand at writing songs too. She ended up studying visual art at Cooper Union but couldn’t resist the vortex of sound that was doing door at Brooklyn’s Shea Stadium. Keba’s early days as Crosslegged were inextricable from the creative community that she built with friends through fests and art shows she helped plan between NYC and Norristown, PA. Eventually she became a manager at Silent Barn in its later years and since then has helped to run a string of arts organizations in NYC. Her latest self-released album, Another Blue, was critically acclaimed by Rolling Stone as #15 in Rolling Stone’s Best Indie Rock Albums of 2023 and Pitchfork’s 33 Great Records You May Have Missed.