MEET EMPRESS J

Meet Empress J

Empress Joyner is using music and culture to connect the Gateway and Africa's shores.

Bajan-American and triple threat Empress Joyner is the founder and CEO of Empress J Entertainment. She is a dancer, actor, producer and singer known for her "raspy, but sensual" register and unapologetically raw content. She has performed hip hop, gospel and rock and has signed with Rich Nation Entertainment/Sony Music Entertainment. But, Empress' true love is Soca, and her latest project is the AfriCaribbean Music Festival. The festival will be held in Sierra Leone, December 28, 2022 and is the first festival designed to bring together Africans, Caribbeans, African-Americans and Afro-Latinos through Soca music, arts, culture and ancestry.

Produced in promotional partnership with Miami Carnival, the festival will be the first festival in Sierra Leone, designed to bring together Africans, Caribbeans, African-Americans and AfroLatinos through Soca music, arts, culture and ancestry.

With the Gateway Community Development Corporation (the Lab's parent organization) as a fiscal sponsor, leading up to the festival will be a series of events in the Gateway Arts District and around the DMV.

Steel Pan and African Drumming lessons, and teaching Mende/ Temne (Sierra Leone) and Creole/Kreyol greetings

African and Caribbean CookOff

AfriCaribbean Dance Fitness Virtual Event

In a bid to usher in climate change and digital transformation initiatives around the African Diaspora’s creative industries, the week-long festival will feature portable technology in music and the arts. Also, the outdoor venues will be solar-powered in natural coastal landscapes.

There will also be the unveiling of a set of commemorative artworks from the District, Maryland and Virginia’s arts community to the residents of the city of Freetown. The festival will be a celebration of 60 years of Independence for Sierra Leone.

EMPRESS J ENTERTAINMENT

H.O.L.T.

-Healing Out Loud TV/ Theatre Productions

a full service stage and TV production house that writes and produces stage plays, web series, industrial videos and more.

Erica Joyner Publishing

publishes original screenplays, stage plays, lyrics/music and now books.

AfriCaribbean Festival

a subsidiary of EJE whose mission is to bridge waters and borders through music and culture by bringing Soca music to Africa.

Empress Joyner is using music and culture to connect the Gateway and Africa's shores.