Def Sound (pronouns they/them/he/hims) is an Afro-Caribbean transdisciplinary artist born and based in South Central LA. Def is a postbinary Grammy Award-considered contemporary hip-hop artist, producer, poet, and award-winning academic.

Def’s work as a poet has been included in Saul Williams’ Anthology CHORUS, while their music has been featured in LA WEEKLY, LA Record, The L.A. Times, The Frieze Art Fair, the Emmy Nominated Television series Music Diaries, and the Emmy winning Artbound on KCET. Def is currently teaching Hip Hop/Black Critical Theory at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).

AnAkA is an artist, evolution doula, holistic world builder and Angel Music channel whose work bridges art, ritual, and personal transformation.

For over fifteen years, she has traveled globally documenting and preserving the sacred wisdom of Indigenous communities—work that now lives through her creative studio, AKTIV8, which centers sacred storytelling and cultural memory.

AnAkA just released her debut album CRISIS OF THE CONCRETE which took about 4 years to form. The music is woven with sonic offerings carrying angel-coded frequencies meant to soothe the nervous system, activate inner guidance, and open portals of remembrance. Rooted in her training across multiple healing traditions—including Ifá lineage, and holding Indigenous mushroom ceremony—her sound is both futuristic and ancient, ceremonial and cinematic.

Through music, medicine, and storytelling, AnAkA creates spaces for people to evolve into themselves.