United StatesAkua Naru is the #30,015 most-subscribed YouTube creator worldwide and #8,090 in United States, with 45.5K subscribers and 8.2M total views across 29 videos. Akua Naru is known as composer, lyricist and singer.
Biography
Akua Naru, is a rapper from Connecticut, United States. Her hip-hop music incorporates styles including soul and jazz. In 2018 she began archiving the achievements of women in hip-hop at Harvard University as a Nasir Jones Hip-hop Fellow at the Hip-hop Archive Research Institute. Naru has been particularly successful in Europe, where she lived from 2008 until joining the music faculty at University of California, Santa Cruz in 2024. Presently, she holds a Pavel Machotka Chair in Creative Studies at Porter College.
Channel description
With the release of her 2011 debut album, "...the journey aflame", akua naru entered the scene, a titanic force of Liberation politics on beats, a true wordsmith whose music, deeply nuanced, poetic and wise, centers the experiences of Black women through rhyme, along a sonic spectrum from Jazz to Soul. Called the “Toni Morrison of Hip Hop” by acclaimed scholar Dr. Cornel West, akua naru’s journey, like her debut album, has been set aflame. To date, she has released four albums: “...the journey aflame (2011)”, “live & aflame sessions (2012)”, “the miner’s canary(2015)”, and “the blackest joy (2018).”
Latest videos Channel ↗
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AKUA NARU - Falling feat. Jakeya Limitless | All About Love Version (Official Video)
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Poetry: How Does It Feel??? (All About Love Version)
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AKUA NARU feat Eric Benét - Made It (Official Video)
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AKUA NARU - My Mother's Daughter (Official Video)
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Akua Naru - Toni Morrison (Live Session)
Frequently asked
- How many subscribers does akua naru have?
- 45.5K subscribers — #30,015 worldwide, #8,090 in United States.
- What is akua naru's real name?
- akua naru's real name is Akua Naru, born Aug 20, 1978.
- When did akua naru start on YouTube?
- The channel was created in Apr 2009.