Meet Drea d’Nur.

Drea D’Nur is a Mother, Buffalo native music and visual artist, archival researcher and evidence collector, community organizer and activist.

As visual curator and music artist, Drea produced the award-winning “The Spirit of Nina”, encompassing musical theatre, photo and art exhibition, and an award-winning documentary about Nina Simone. As a healing vessel of sound, Drea curated “Healing Songs in Beautiful Spaces”, a spiritually guided sound healing session led by her voice and piano. She also contributed vocals on the Grammy Nominated album “Humanz” by the Gorillaz, 2023 Rolling Stones Best Album-listed “Won’t He Do It” by Conway The Machine, and Grammy Nominated album “You Will Be Someone’s Ancestor. Act Accordingly” by Amir Sulaiman and co-produced by Robert Glasper.

Her curated projects include, “Dear Nina: A Sonic Love Letter”—in collaboration with Rootstock Republic (Strings and String Arrangements)—featuring re-orchestrated works from Nina Simone’s songbook of Love songs, Blues and Protest Music for voice and string sextet; and “This Love Thing”—co-executive produced with Rami Nashashibi (IMAN Central, Founding Director)—an album that explores themes of brokenness, repair, and hope “through the turbulent and triumphant expressions of love.”

In addition to Drea’s rich music profile, she works to heal broken communities. As the founding director of WNY’s first organic and halal food access resource center, Feed Buffalo, D’Nur provides locally-sourced healthy food to those in need. In 2020, she aided in the passage of Cariol’s Law, a duty to intervene law written in honor of former officer Cariol Horne who lost her job and pension for intervening, in Buffalo, NY, as a member of the Justice for Cariol Team.

Drea is currently crafting an interdisciplinary healing art project, “Reimagine Black Death: Expanding the Testimony Through Remembrance”.