For Your Grammy Awards® Consideration
BEST CHILDREN’S MUSIC ALBUM
“World Wide Playdate” by Divinity Roxx
It’s time to consider this year’s Grammy® Awards nominations. While you’re listening and deciding which projects to vote for, consider my album, World Wide Playdate, for the Best Children’s Music Album category, a hip-hop family party album amplifying the power of play to spread joy.
I wanted to create an album of songs that felt like hip-hop did to me when I was a kid – fun, inspiring, uplifting, and joyful. Affirmations and positive messages echo over groovy bass lines and provide the blueprints for being good to ourselves and others.
And what’s more fun than a PLAYDATE with friends? I invited some of my favorite friends to join me on this playdate and together we laughed and danced while making this album. One of the highlights for me was inviting my niece’s cheer team from Genesis Innovation Academy in Atlanta to join me in the studio to enhance the music and messages in the songs.
“I believe that there is power in play. I grew up in a time when we played outside, used our imaginations, and came up with games that taught us how to resolve conflict, how to socialize with one another, and how to make new friends. We were active and always looking to play. When I think about it, I play music for a living, so I am always in some state of play.” – Divinty Roxx “Bass Empire Magazine 2024”
The order of the day is to let loose, and connect, with hip-hop and pop singalongs that encourage us to engage with one another. The National Institute For Play says that “Play is part of the solution to our harried, anxiety-creating lives.” With themes that include friendship, family, self-empowerment, and bringing your dreams to life, World Wide Playdate provides the soundtrack to finding our happy place.
The playdate extended into the recording studio where Divinity invited colleagues and friends from all over to collaborate. Notable features include Tarriona “Tank” Ball from and the Bangaa, Mumu Fresh, Divinity’s longtime mentor and 5-time Grammy award-winning bass virtuoso Victor Wooten, Malcolm Jamal Warner, and Nigerian-born artist, Teemanay. The Atlanta-based Genesis Innovation Academy Cheer Team brought the energy on backing vocals and her niece and Goddaughter joined the playdate as well.
Divinity collaborated with producer Wayne Gerard (Don Was, Dr. Fink) to bring her vision to life. Then she linked with hit songwriter Mary Brown (Destiny’s Child, Mary J Blige, Michael Jackson) to co-write on the album and sing backing vocals. The three teamed up to produce the entire album, making for an unstoppable stream of back-to-back bangers that you can’t get out of your head.
For Your Grammy Awards® Consideration
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
“Celebrate!” by Divinity Roxx
For Your Grammy Awards® Consideration
BEST RAP SONG AND BEST RAP PERFORMANCE
“IMMA FORCE” by Divinity Roxx feat Mumu Fresh
BIOGRAPHY
Divinity Roxx is a multi-hyphenate Grammy-nominated musician, recording artist, producer, and author celebrated for her empowering lyrics and infectious bass playing.
Her career as a bass player skyrocketed after touring with 5-time Grammy award-winning bass virtuoso, Victor Wooten. She then toured and performed with Beyoncé as her bassist and Musical Director. She was a featured soloist on the ‘Beyoncé Experience’ tour and DVD and composed original music for the ‘I…AM Sasha Fierce’ tour.
She has appeared on countless television shows, including The Grammy’s, SNL, Good Morning America, and more, with personal highlights including a special performance at The Whitehouse with President Barack Obama and an invitation to perform at The Whitehouse Easter Egg Roll in 2023.
Her 2021 Family Music Album release, ‘Ready Set Go!’ received a Grammy nomination and Scholastic Inc. published two songs from the album as full-color picture books.
Divinity’s original compositions can be heard on television shows like ‘Love and Hip-Hop Atlanta’, ‘Jersey Shore’, ‘The Bold Type,’ and others.
Her voice-over work includes commercials for Progressive, White Castle, Excedrin, and a leading role as Leetah, in the ‘Elfquest’ audio movie.
She composed and performed the theme song for the PBS KIDS television show, “Lyla in the Loop” in 2024.
She co-composed music for the Young Theatre of the Arts play, ‘The Boy Who Kissed The Sky,’ written by Idris Goodwin and produced by the Tony Award-Winning Alliance Theater (Atlanta) and Seattle Children’s Theater.
Divinity made her debut as a playwright and actor in the world premiere of her one-woman show, ‘Starchild: The Ballad of Debbie Walker’ at Crossroads Theater in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 2023.
Divinity was born and raised in Atlanta, Ga. She currently lives in New Jersey. She is a proponent of the rights of performing musicians and songwriters and continues to speak out against pay inequity and gender bias.
She is a voting member for the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, serves as the co-executive secretary for the National Black Musicians Coalition and is serving her second-term on the Board of Governors of the New York Chapter of the Recording Academy where she is the co-chair for the Advocacy Committee.
Full Color Picture Books published by Scholastic Inc.
from the Grammy ® Nominated Album
READY SET GO!
by Divinity Roxx
